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She worked for Hospice for about 10 years. Also, she has worked in hospitals and nursing homes.

Anyone with COPD should not be taking Ativan. My mother went into the hospital for Pneumonia and she also had COPD. She began having signs of anxiety so the doctor gave her a shot of ativan against my sisters wishes. Her coming from a medical background she knew the side effects of the drug in people with COPD. The Doctor then decided to give her another shot. It caused her oxygen level to go way down. She had respitory failure, causing her to have a heart attack. She lost oxygen to her brain because they let her sit in her room for 30 minutes before checking in on her again. She was then put into ICU where she was completely brain dead and had to have machines breathe for her. She was in a coma, we had to make the difficult decision of taking our mother off of life support. I had to help make that decision at 22 years old. We now are motherless because a certain doctor felt the need to make a wrong choice. My mother was only 47 years old. There are plenty of other anxiety medications out there that doctors could prescribe. Her doctor chose to take the idiot way out. All people with COPD BEWARE!!!!!!!