We had an infection on his bottom the size of a grapefruit. They took out an abscess the size of a golf ball on his bottom. We are in the hospital at Grande Ronde, second floor. They pumped him full of antibiotics. And we assumed we would be home on Tuesday.
Today is Saturday and we are still here.
They are concerned there is another abcess with all the antibodies pumped in him he is not improving. Bruce is unable to keep the chalk milkshake down to do an MRI.
He is in pain from his left arm. They think they have that figured out as the back of the shoulder movement. No blood pressure taking on that arm.
His fever is gone. His blood pressure leveled out after they put a catheter in last night.
They do his blood pressure on his right calf as his right arm has the picc line and the left arm is pain sensitive.
He is on an oxygen tube around his neck and in his nose, (I don't want to say tube because that implies it is down his throat), the levels are good. They are concerned about pneumonia because he is not active.
He is not eating. He has nausea. They gave him Tylenol for the pain and waiting for dr for more instructions.
We have to wait for the paper work to go through to send him to Boise and that will be Mon. or Tuesday. They want to put him in care where he will get the full range of treatment including physical therapy and they don't have that in La Grande. I asked. I don't want to go back to Boise. They said it would take 2 - 3 weeks for th wound to heal.
He has a vacumn pump on the wound.
He is in and out to communicate. He nods off and when awake he says, "ouch, ouch, oh it hurts."
I put chap stick on his lips. He is pretty scruffy looking, five days of growth on his chin. He and Andrew could have a hairy contest.
The nurses are calm and efficient. Me too, I'm reading a book.
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