Marshall Jones’ MRSA Story

I talked to Dr. Lemos this morning. The doctors are so hard to catch in the ICU. I am sure they avoid visiting during visitation hours! I had a big list of questions:
I have made a list of questions for Dr. Lemos.

Dr. Lemos said that the Staph in his neck and then in his blood was not caused by his ingrown hair. Diabetes made his immune system compromised, and the ingrown hair infection just went out of control. I told him what Dr. Daftarian had told us in August about using the Hibiclens soap, Bactroban, and Lysol, and he said that was fine, that the rest of us shouldnt have to worry about getting this infection. All we needed to do was to be aware of wounds, and appropriately cleanse and treat them. He said that Staph is on everyones skin all of the time, and normally our bodies can deal with that bacteria if it gets into a cut, but sometimes, because of a compromised immune system, it can manage to take over. Dr. Lemos also said that it might take a while, but Marshall was going to be ok!

I also saw Dr. Spencer today, he said that the ventilator would come off in 3-5 days, when they get much more fluid off of him, and that he would probably be on antibiotics for another 6 weeks.

Marshall puckered up and gave me 2 kisses while I was there! His eyes are open about 50% of the time, and the tape across his mouth holding the ventilator tubing in place was bothering him. I told the nurse that it would be ok to shave his mustache so the tape would work better. He looks just like his son without his moustache!

They removed over 3 liters of fluid today in dialysis! They said we should start to notice this fluid loss soon.