His Battle with a Community Acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) Infection and Septicemia
Marshall’s belly is upset again this morning. He had medium sharp abdominal pains most of the day, starting after his insulin dose this morning.
Dr. Young consulted today, he is a urologist. He wants to keep Marshall’s catheter in for now, until his output decreases and gets back to normal. He says Marshall’s [...]
Well, after not eating supper, Marshall woke up at 2 am with signs of low blood sugar again. I got him some juice, and naturally we overcorrected it and about 3 hrs later came up with signs of high sugar. Grrr.
His belly is upset this morning, is a little nauseous.
I went and voted [...]
Dr. Daftarian is back. We sure do miss her when she is gone!!
I need to ask her about putting ice on Marshall’s back, and tell her about Dr. Morgan telling us about Motrin toxicity. I also need to show her the lumps on his back, and ask her about his continuing confusion, and [...]
Marshall woke up at 4am complaining of terrible back pain- he took one Lortab and that helped enough for him to get back to sleep.
The overnight nurse was a very vivacious spanish woman, but she couldn’t set Marshall’s IV to save her life (he is picking the IV out, as well as the leads now). [...]
Nurse Mary Beth is back again, and is an idiot. I guess she could be overworked, but I think she is just tired of her job and going through the motions. I popped awake at 5 am this morning, when my subconscious heard her giving Marshall a shot of Morphine. 2 days [...]
Rough day today.
4 hours of dialysis, removed 4 liters of fluid. Dr. Morgan changed the dialysis order to every other day. Marshall loves dialysis. This cracks up the dialysis techs everytime. They say that NO ONE loves dialysis, but Marshall always says Hooray when they come, because he says it makes [...]
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 [...]
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