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Just got off the phone with Uncle. He said he is waiting for the Infectious Disease specialist to come by and give the OK for him to go home today. Says the Discharge nurse has been by and set up for a home health nurse to come by daily and change the dressing ( and run his rear end back into the hospital if the occassion requires ).
Had the infection cultured and some national infectious disease center consulted and they said to give him some medicine the doctor had never heard of before. Powerful stuff. Had to switch veins every so often as it would burn out the vein and start the medicine leaking into the tissue, so they'd stick him somewhere else. Also ampicillin - not clear on this but I think he said they were running six tenths of a liter into him intravenously every X number of hours. Anyway, yesterday they switched him over to oral meds, wanted to see if he could take it in the doses they were giving him, and he'd had 3 doses and no alarming reactions evidently.
He is hoping to get back on the net today is what he claimed. If not, then tomorrow. I'll let you make up your own minds as to whether the illness has affected his brain ( but I suspect he was that thickheaded even before the illness ). Sigh.
Had the infection cultured and some national infectious disease center consulted and they said to give him some medicine the doctor had never heard of before. Powerful stuff. Had to switch veins every so often as it would burn out the vein and start the medicine leaking into the tissue, so they'd stick him somewhere else. Also ampicillin - not clear on this but I think he said they were running six tenths of a liter into him intravenously every X number of hours. Anyway, yesterday they switched him over to oral meds, wanted to see if he could take it in the doses they were giving him, and he'd had 3 doses and no alarming reactions evidently.
He is hoping to get back on the net today is what he claimed. If not, then tomorrow. I'll let you make up your own minds as to whether the illness has affected his brain ( but I suspect he was that thickheaded even before the illness ). Sigh.
