How were their lungs afterwards?
How long did they live afterwards?
My Dad (in his late 80’s) died of an inoperable gastric problem a year later. His heart and lungs hung in there until he lost so much blood they shut down.
Maybe you should’ve been there for that initial episode. It was very hard to see Dad hooked up to a ventilator, but that was a hell of a lot better than seeing him struggle for his life in the ER, gasping violently, with cardiac and respiratory rates (and duration of those symptoms) I did not think were survivable. Probably the worst night of my life, much less, his.
My brother is still with us, almost a decade later. Necrotic pneumonia took out 2/3 of his lung function, but, that’s what put him in the hospital to begin with. Until an unrelated problem worsened recently, rehab quickly got him to where he could function fairly normally - but don’t ask him to run a marathon.