Marshall Jones’ MRSA Story

Marshall still doesn’t have the dialysis catheter removed, I am calling Dr. Daftarian.

He is nauseous this morning.

I removed 1100 cc’s of urine by catheter this morning. ME!

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Oh boy am I ticked off. Dr. Lemos has decided that he wants to try putting Marshall back on Vancomycin before we get out of the hospital. I guess for good reason, the antibiotic Marshall is on now is $500 a bag, 2 bags a day, for 2 more weeks. Our insurance will not pay for it at home. So, we may be stuck here for 2 more weeks, because they WILL pay for it if we are here. Makes alot of sense. However, Marshall is allergic to Vancomycin, I am POSITIVE. I went outside to watch for Dr. Lemos (his office is right across from the hospital. When I “gently reminded” him of this fact, he disagreed, and said that he was sure it was something else that he was on that was causing an allergic reaction. BS. He has had 2 reactions since this started, both when he was put on Vancomycin.

Mom has to get back home to work (Tennessee), she has held her trip off hoping to see Marshall come home from the hospital. Boy am I ready to get out of here too.

So….here we sit, all packed up and nowhere to go.

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Well, guess what. I was right. 15 minutes after they started the Vancomycin, Marshall started itching all over, badly. They took him off of it immediately. Good grief. What now.

Back to the Synercid. Might as well get as much more of the expensive stuff while we can.

Unpacking….grrrrr.