Marshall Jones’ MRSA Story

This morning, at 5 am, Marshall woke me up in agonizing pain. His groin was just killing him. Bladder problems? Or is it that darned bed???
He is eating Tylenol 3’s like candy. He cannot hardly move, which means he can’t do any kind of physical therapy. Oh this is not [...]

I wonder if coming home was the right thing to do.
I feel like I have come home with my first new baby, and have no idea what to do with it. Marshall is miserable in the bed, he cannot hardly move around in it. The mattress is so soft that it makes a [...]

Can you believe we have left the hospital?
Dr. Daftarian came in this morning, and asked us if we were ready to go home! Boy, were we (me–I think Marshall was happy either way)! Dr. Lemos wrote Marshall a prescription for 2 months worth of Zyvox, the nurse came in and gave us a [...]

Still here. I have been “retaliating” by not taking notes like I was. Who is this hurting? Just me, when I want to go back for reference.
Everything is going just fine, Marshall took a big walk around the hospital today, he doesn’t want to go outside anymore though. [...]

I am so irritated today, and Marshall is just cool as a cucumber. I need to change my attitude, because it looks like we could feasibly be here for another 6 weeks. How ridiculous is insurance anyway?
Marshall is getting his regular physical therapy, and is doing very well. I am [...]

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. [...]

Good day today, still has back pain and nausea though.
He walked to the end of the hall and back this morning with the PT’s.
Dr. Daftarian came at noon and gave him his walking paper orders for tomorrow!!!
They also told me I have to learn how to catheterize Marshall–he is still on the every [...]

Brother Bryan came to visit early this morning, then CB, then Eric.
Susan Hilton (from Century21) came in about 1pm.
They put in Marshalls pic line early afternoon.
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Dr. Lemos said that if our insurance will cover IV antibiotics, that we will be going home soon.
Marshall looks good today!
Dr. Morgan:
Marshall has 60% kidney function, this is [...]

Dr. Tan (in for Dr. Morgan) pronounced Marshall’s kidneys FULLY RECOVERED! He will wait until Dr. Morgan returns tomorrow and will let him order the dialysis catheter removed.
Dr. Lemos told Marshall that he is going to put in a new central pic line in his arm in preparation to go home this [...]

Sucky A&M vs. OU game today. Ugh.
Good day for Marshall, he had a mild headache most of the day though.
Noah came to visit for a couple of hours, he is getting a cold I think!
Dr. Kool (retinal specialist) came to check Marshall’s eyes. His diagnosis–
Where the right eye was partially open while [...]