text: well  a tube in her lungs can mean several things. but it sounds she has had a rather difficult time.if she has problems with her lungs and there are unknown spots there abcesses it can be from many things,or a simple infection that settled in her lungs and her body isolated it and encapsulated the bug.\nor it can be from a systemic wide organism\nand it has simply gotten in enough places\nher body can no longer control its spread.\n  until they know what it is be content she is doing ok.\nthey could be talking about doing a biopsy to see what it is,or chest tubes which you havent said if her lung has collasped.\nthey could be talking on mechanical ventilation also,which is placing a tuber in her lungs to right at the carina so air can go into both lungs s she can breath easier.\n or placing drainage tube into the abcess to drain it.\n  so the bottom line is none is terrifcally major,except the illness its self.\n  whether she has a bacterial infection in the lung or other reason, the major thing it sounds they are trying to control it and may have to let her rest on a ventilator till they can control the infection. saw on that they will give her medications and put her to sleep,and place a tube into her lungs and hook her up to a vent. they may keep her knocked out till they can treat the infection,and then get her back to breathing on her own.\n  the next thing is is what kind of infection is it. there are bugs out there \nthat are not good to get, so without sounding crude simply relax until they know what they are dealing with.\n  some of the bugs can totally destroy parts of the lung,others simply get isolated and encapsalated by the body.\n  so the trick is is to get a direct specimen of the critter,and then grow it in the lab and test what kills it,in order to know how to treat her.\n oxygen isnt all that bad either,it is simply what the bug is and get samples in order to know how to treat it.\n  if you wonder i do intensive care work,and tried to make things simple for easy understanding.\nshe has an infection and she has become very sick and they dont know what to treat her with yet.\n  so relax some, and support her.\ndepending on what they find out will determine the rest.