What a Rubic’s Cube of symptoms!!

I had a left lower lobectomy the end of May and I have severe obstructive sleep apnea and use a bipap (similar to CPAP but maintains pressure on both inhale and exhale.

Since my surgery I have had rib and diaphragm pain when I try to breath deeply. When I get up to go to the bathroom at night I disconnect and then reconnect the hose from bipap to my mask and I find I am hyperventilating like I’m trying to catch my breath. I think I am breathing shallowly in my sleep to avoid the pain trigger. And I get back to normal before I fall asleep again. Not hard to imagine that if your mom is having similar shallow breathing, that could impact O2 levels.

In my opinion, You need a diagnostician or a hospitalist (someone who specializes in hospital resources and how to best knit them together on a given case). Your name sounds like you are in Detroit? What hospital is familiar with her? Could you call office of chief medical officer and ask if either of those specialties are on staff service?