My Single Mom Life

My day started off kind of scary.
I called my neighbor to check on her, make sure she was ok and able to get to her doctors appointment, but I got no answer.
I figured she was up and in the shower already, so I was going to wait like 10 minutes and call again.

Then one of our friends comes banging on my door around 8:45, and is yelling that something is seriously wrong with my neighbor, she's not breathing my friend says.
I run over there with her, and my neighbor is in her chair in the living room, her oxygen tank wasn't on, her glasses and phone were on the floor, and she was slumped over in her chair.
We turned the oxygen back on, placed the tubing back in her nose, and started trying to wake her.
She had a pulse but it was very faint.
We finally got her to come around, but her pupils were constricted, like the op of pins, and her skin was a really pale shade, she was slurring as she was trying to speak.
We couldn't make anything out that she was saying except for "no hospital".

We kept talking to her, asking her questions, what medicine did she take, how many etc.
There were 5 different pill bottles dumped on her end table, we had no idea what medicine was what, nor what she took, or how many of these pills.
We got her some coffee, made her drink it through a straw, and the two of us kept saying we need to get her to a hospital.
My neighbor kept saying no, no hospital, please. She started crying, begging us not to take her to the hospital.
It was just scary and sad.
We finally convinced her to go to her doctors office as scheduled, and my friend called off work and drove her.
She said she would tell the doctor how we found her this morning, and if he calls an ambulance, there's nothing my neighbor could do about it.
My friend said she'd call me if her doctor calls an ambulance and has her admitted, so I can contact her husband and take care of her son.
I'm hoping that doesn't happen, but she was in really bad shape.

I thought she was dead when I first walked in.
Slumped over, an icky gray pale color, the oxygen not turned on, things all a mess on the floor and table, and her dog laying near her feet with his head on her foot.
Very scary.
I hate things like that.