Marshall Jones’ MRSA Story

Oh misery. Marshall had another MRI this morning at 10 am. I cannot tell you how much he despises that. He has perfect memory of the hell that was his first MRI (see Day 3). To make matters worse, when he FINALLY got done with todays MRI, at noon, just when he got comfy, they came back (12:30) and said the doctor wanted another few pictures of the base of his spine which they said looked suspicious. No kidding. Oh he was not happy. But he survived it.

I went to Noah’s teacher conference today at 2.

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MRI Results–

Marshall has abcesses all up and down his spine, along with several infected vertebrae and lots of scar tissue all up and down his spine. Dr. Briner (Dr. FrankenSpine), the neurosurgeon, was consulted. His decision was that the abcesses are not causing Marshall enough problems to go in and drain them, and that the antibiotics were obviously working well, because of all of the scar tissue.

Lanny came to see him this afternoon, Marshall was more social then I have seen him yet.

Marshall had his last dialysis (hopefully) at 7pm.