Marshall Jones’ MRSA Story

5:30am–417 ccs of urine for 24 hours–YAY!
Marshall’s eyes still are sad–they can look like the saddest puppy dog eyes you have ever seen–but he smiles and kisses me.
He had 3 BM’s over night, the last one is still there. Did I mention I am not fond of this nurse??
I have to laugh at Rick–he [...]

CB (my father in law) and I were there at the 5:30am visitation (as usual).
Marshall was looking great-his fever was down, and he gave me a kiss and a smile when we came in!
Water blisters have formed on his groin area and under his leg, I guess all of that fluid must have to come [...]

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.
We need time to talk, do we need to make [...]

Dr. Daftarian called me today, and said that Marshall was coming along very well, and that he was tough and strong and that was why he was healing so quickly. She said all of the levels were moving in the right direction. The nurse reiterated that later for me.
Rick Colwell was [...]

Marshall is still sleeping away. This is the very best thing for him.
Eric and his wife came to visitation at 10 this morning.
A relative that came to visit handed me a card with the tip ends of her fingers, as if my cooties might jump on her. Is this what [...]

Marshall is still nice and peaceful this morning.
The reunion was good, Marshall’s cousin Liz had a bluegrass band with doctors from Scott and White Clinic, where she works. They made a truly miserable situation a good bit more cheery. Marshall and I both are huge fans of “O Brother, Where Art [...]

At the early visitation, Marshall was sleeping peacefully. FINALLY! He looked SO much better already.
I went by the Colwells at about 6:30am, ate breakfast with them (their venison sausage is INCREDIBLE!), and took the kids to school. I went to the kids teachers and told them what was going on, so they [...]

Marshall is in the ICU. Visitation is at 5am, 10:30am, 1pm, 5:30pm and 9pm.
When I went in this morning, Marshall is in MUCH less pain, the morphine is finally helping. The nurses are OUTSTANDING in this unit. Marshall’s breathing rate is high and is still very shallow.
When I came in [...]

Dr. Daftarian came in this morning, early, and reported that nothing significant was seen in the Xray or the CAT scan. She had both tests repeated. At this point, the staph infection in his neck from August was bugging me, and I was really starting to worry about it. When we had [...]

Somewhere around midnight, Marshall began vomiting. At this point, I started looking on the internet for his problem, because we have (finally) ruled out normal back pain. And I have finally been convinced that he really does have a problem. He has big lumps of bunched up muscles at the small of [...]