Sunday, March 20, 2011

I no you are shocked that I am posting again so soon, but more test and discussion on Steve's condition. He was admitted into the hospital yesterday morning. The test results from the blood cultures that they took Friday came back yesterday morning, Saturday and showed that Steve has a staff infection in the blood and it is not familiar to the doctor. Dr. Brown is going to talk with the infectious disease doctor tomorrow to make sure he is getting the right antibiotic.
So he is going to be in the hospital for a few days. He was very sick yesterday. Low grade fever, severe headache and entire body ache.

His shoulder has been hurting him bad enough that he doesn't want anyone touching it. We asked the doctor about it and she said that staff infection can settle in your joints. They did an MRI today to see if anything shows up. Probably get the results tomorrow. He has to do dialysis tomorrow again.

The doctor has said he has to be careful with everything thing he does a little scratch or cut could be bad for him. Most people get an infection in their access site for dialysis and Steve's is fine. The doc thinks his possibly came from some scratches on his ankle from an incident he had 3 weeks ago, they are not sure. He has got to be more careful. He was so sick he couldn't walk across the floor or go up and down the stairs.

I will try and post again when I no more about the test results.

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