Marshall Jones’ MRSA Story

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 [...]

We had a great day today, although Marshall had some back pain and nausea, his attitude was excellent! Finally! I think he is finally through with morphine withdrawal.
At lunchtime, he asked what was on the tray before I told him. Yay! I think his appetite is coming back!
Dr. Young had Marshall’s [...]

Oh misery. Marshall had another MRI this morning at 10 am. I cannot tell you how much he despises that. He has perfect memory of the hell that was his first MRI (see Day 3). To make matters worse, when he FINALLY got done with todays MRI, at noon, just when [...]