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So, I was called stat to the emergency room. I was told to give a breathing treatment to the lady in room 221. She was in severe respiratory distress. I opened the door to her room. She was sitting there blue and puffing. But, I watched as the nurse disconnected her from her home concentrator and hooked her nasal cannula up to the wall She continued to be blue and winded. She was a happy little lady, though. She never stopped chatting, despite the fact she was pretty winded. And she started talking about her cats. Oh, how she loved her cats. And so I checked her nasal cannula. It had holes in it. She said, "My cats got into my oxygen tubing. And I didn't have any replacement tubing." From the cabinet, in the room, I grabbed a new nasal cannula. I took her off of her cannula. I put the new cannula on her. And, lo and behold, her pulse oximeter reading perked right up to 92%. She was also no longer blue. Of course, I still have to give her that breathing treatment. But, by ...