Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Doctor update
I finally talked to a doctor. The abscess is around his diverticulities in his colon. Multiple experts have looked at it and do not believe there is enough fluid to drain. Typically if there is a bad infection your white blood cell count goes up. His is still normal. They have taken him off one of his immunosuppression drugs short term. She is hoping he will be out of the hospital by the end of the week and they will do a follow up CAT scan. One other thing she mentioned that did not sound pleasant, was possibly putting a line in order to administer iv antiobiotics at home. I do not think it will come to this, but who knows.
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Stay strong bud. You aren't missing anything at work except complaining users and Doug not knowing his A from a hole in the ground. I'll be over to see you this week.
Lusk
this is good news in that they caught the infection early and have begun treatment which should prevent it from progressing. is he currently getting IV antibiotics and if so do you happen to know what?
We are praying this is a quick visit for you guys. Michelle, its hard to say "I understand" because few of us do, but sometimes we just have to say "THIS SUCKS". So I will agree, this sucks for you both...but there is a light at the end, so stay stong!!!!
on the bright side, Neal looked the best i've seen him in the hospital in a long time... that's good, right? things have to work out eventually...it can't be random that your best friend is a match and willing to donate....there's got to be a reason. keep your heads up as best you can.....
He is currently getting Cipro and Ertapanem via IV.
thanks, cipro is a broadspectrum antibiotic which should work against both gram positive and gram negative bacteria. it is a 2nd generation quinolone which means that if this is not effective there are still two more generations that can be used (the idea is that the higher the generation the bigger the gun if you will). i have never heard of the other antibiotic and could not find any information on it.
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