Tonya To Stay In Hospital.
Hello again,
Well, as you probably guessed by now, Tonya is not coming home today. Her temp went up to 100.9 last night so the doctor came in this morning he said, "discharge plans are cancelled today". The doc said he is going to start the blood work over again and do some other stuff. He said they may have to repeat the T.E.E. again. That is where they go into her esophagus with a camera and look at her heart to see if there is an infection. If there is, that is called "endocarditis". That is a heart infection and he told us last time if that is detected it requires 14 days of IV antibiotics. That however, can be done at home on home health. He said we have to put our finger on what's keeping the fever up before she can go home. Since she has a "can't miss" pain pump appt. on Tuesday, the doc said he could put a pic line in and let her go to the appt. and come back. It looks like that is what we might have to do. I don't know what the plans are for the rest of the weekend other than this. On the plus side Tonya's doctor is on call so we will be seeing him this whole weekend. I don't know how much he can get done over the holidays though. Probably won't know anything else until tomorrow now.
Brian
Well, as you probably guessed by now, Tonya is not coming home today. Her temp went up to 100.9 last night so the doctor came in this morning he said, "discharge plans are cancelled today". The doc said he is going to start the blood work over again and do some other stuff. He said they may have to repeat the T.E.E. again. That is where they go into her esophagus with a camera and look at her heart to see if there is an infection. If there is, that is called "endocarditis". That is a heart infection and he told us last time if that is detected it requires 14 days of IV antibiotics. That however, can be done at home on home health. He said we have to put our finger on what's keeping the fever up before she can go home. Since she has a "can't miss" pain pump appt. on Tuesday, the doc said he could put a pic line in and let her go to the appt. and come back. It looks like that is what we might have to do. I don't know what the plans are for the rest of the weekend other than this. On the plus side Tonya's doctor is on call so we will be seeing him this whole weekend. I don't know how much he can get done over the holidays though. Probably won't know anything else until tomorrow now.
Brian
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