His Battle with a Community Acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) Infection and Septicemia
Well, we have been out of the hospital for a week, and things are still looking up. Heart rate is much better (90-105), sugar is still high (Zyvox?), fever is gone (thank God!).
Tried to make an appointment with Dr. Young today (urologist), and, naturally, there are 2 brothers sharing the same office. Do I know which one he saw? Of course not. Can their office tell me? Nope. We saw Dr. Daftarian today, does she know? Of course not. So, I took a stab at it. We will see if I got it right in a couple of weeks when we go. I guess we will be catheterizing him until then. I am sure he is thrilled about that.
He is still feeling nauseous. I have researched all of his medications, and tried to highlight drug interactions, and food interactions that could be making him sickly. We have to watch other drugs and lots of foods (cheese–which he loves/lives on) and hopefully this will help his nausea, not to mention make his medications work more properly. He is on Toprol XL for his blood pressure (which might be elevated due to his bacterial endocarditis), Glucophage XL and Glipizide for his diabetes, Tylenol 3 for his pain, Zyvox for his infection, phenergan for his nausea, Zanaflex (muscle relaxant), and Ambien to keep his sleep regulated better. I am pretty sure that Ambien isn’t working, it allows him a few hours of sleep, then he pops awake. But he is hard headed and wont listen to me about that. I will bring it up at Dr. D.’s next appointment.