Woman told 'go straight to hospital' after 'keeling over' when she got out of bed
A woman says her life completely changed a week before her birthday when she woke up and 'keeled over' one morning. . Molly Gardner, 51, from Edge Hill, went to get out of bed on the morning of December 14, 2022, and a sudden pain emanated from just underneath her breast bone at the top of her stomach had her writhing in agony.
After a call to her GP she was told to go straight to hospital, with suspected gallstone issues, reports the Liverpool Echo.Molly says she felt relaxed about the situation when she first went to the hospital.She said: “I was just joking with the doctor.
It was my birthday a week later, [I said] I'm not going to be missing my birthday. They said, no no, you're going to be here for two days.” However, she suffered an adverse reaction to painkillers she had been given.
Molly said: “All of a sudden the room just started spinning. I was shouting for the doctor. And then the last thing I hear is, we need to get her down to ICU.” Suddenly she couldn’t breathe and her lungs were failing rapidly.Molly was hooked up to a CPAP machine, which puts oxygenated air into your airways through a mask and tube.She breathed through the CPAP for around five to six days, and would sleep in 15 to 16 hour spells at a time.But, she noticed something was still not right when she was told she was on the way to recoveryMolly said: “As this is all going on, I had to have the food tube through my nose.
