She mentioned both for the purposes of emphasis. Which is a recognised & legitimate style of diction.Guest wrote:Using both pneumonia and respiritory failure as a way of describing the same thing is to make it all sound worse than it already is.
Plus she was asked for the full list of her illnesses.
As several ppl have pointed out, Respiratory Failure is not the same as double pneumonia.
RF is just a symptom that can result from 101 different diseases & infections ... including Pnuemonia.
Eg RF can be caused by bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, pneumothorax (burst lungs) - & yes, pnuemonia too.
All it means is that not enough oxygen is reaching the lungs. (In type 2 RF you have the additional complication that
carbon dioxide is not being expelled adequately, thus it accummulates & poisons the system.)
Do check your facts next time before you come running to sneer.