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At My Wits End
My husband is home after a week in the hospital where he was started on IV Vancomycin. The abscess material was cultured and they found something like TB. The infectious disease specialist and the Urologist are convinced it is BCG as the abscess is next to the path of the nephrostomy tube and where the BCG was instilled once in late June. He now been home two weeks and he is still having fevers and chills. Last Sunday I took him to the ER and they found a UTI and started him on CIPRO. He had two days with out a fever and started running them again.
The Urologist said on Friday that there was no sign of a UTI so to stop the CIPRO on Monday. The Vancomycin was finished on Thursday.
Yesterday he had a high fever in the morning and again this morning. When he runs a fever he gets delirious and is difficult. He gets dehydrated and resists taking medication. This upsets me because the fever won’t come down unless he takes the Tylenol. The Dr. doesn’t know what is causing the fevers and said it could even be the drain they put in the abscess.I have not been able to do anything other than look after him or take him to the Dr. My Mother and Sister are here for two days and I could not even take my Mother out to see something of Tucson as Dick was running a temp of 101.5 this morning and I could not leave him. I will not have him spend another 9 hours in the ER and then be sent home again. If he needs to be in the hospital they can admit him directly as he does not need another endurance contest in the vile gurneys they use for beds in the ER. I don’t need to have constant sciatic pain from sitting in their uncomfortable chairs for hours on end. I don’t even want him in the hospital as they totally mess up his diabetes control.
I believe now that his treatment led directly to this miserable situation.
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