Marshall Jones’ MRSA Story

Marshall was moved to room 256 (telemetry unit) at 10:30am today. The nursing care here is unbelievably bad. He is hooked up to a remote monitor, which is in a room with constant supervision, I guess this is why the nurses don’t have to be very attentive. We are in the very end room of the hallway, it is like being in the dungeon. The hospital is renovating the room next to us, so all we hear is the sawzall going all day long.

I talked to Dr. Daftarian about Marshall’s confusion, and we decided it is probably the morphine. He keeps telling me that he needs to know what is going on, that he doesn’t understand. I try to explain, and this is all he says back to me. He keeps picking off the monitor leads, almost as soon as the nurse puts them on. Sometimes she is not even out of the room yet. Dr. D cancelled the morphine and changed it to Vicodin (for his back pain, which he still has). They started him on Immodium at 4pm today, to try to slow down his bowels, which are still moving like crazy (loose as well).

The night nurse, Mary Beth, at 7:50 gave Marshall 2 benedryls, 2 vicodin and one immodium.

Dr. D changed his meals to solids.

Dr. Morgan decided to not change his catheter.