Posted by Becky
Leif is doing okay this morning.The fever and low blood pressure appear to have been an allergic reaction to the Amox (a penicillin-related antibiotic) he took Friday night and Saturday morning. (edit 9/11/12 - see later post for details of Leif's drug reaction adventures. I posted without full information, trying to get information at a distance and pass it along quickly!)
A surgeon is going to treat the abscess sometime this morning or early this afternoon. The CT scan they did last night showed that this is the same infection Leif had last time he was in the hospital; it never quite healed up, and only now that his white blood cell level has recovered has it formed an abscess. Now that his body is dealing with it, the doctors expect it to heal completely. He's pretty drugged up on painkillers at the moment, and he can't sit because it hurts too much, so he's been dozing and listening to a book on his iPod.
I'm still home - feeling better, if not 100%. We are hoping Leif can come home tomorrow; in the meantime, I'm planning to get some household chores done in preparation for the work-week ahead.
Leif is doing okay this morning.
A surgeon is going to treat the abscess sometime this morning or early this afternoon. The CT scan they did last night showed that this is the same infection Leif had last time he was in the hospital; it never quite healed up, and only now that his white blood cell level has recovered has it formed an abscess. Now that his body is dealing with it, the doctors expect it to heal completely. He's pretty drugged up on painkillers at the moment, and he can't sit because it hurts too much, so he's been dozing and listening to a book on his iPod.
I'm still home - feeling better, if not 100%. We are hoping Leif can come home tomorrow; in the meantime, I'm planning to get some household chores done in preparation for the work-week ahead.
It was not the Amox, it turns out to be Vancomycin. It also is not "technically" an allergy, but a reaction to the speed that the drug is fed. Apparently, it is a well-known reaction, called "Redman syndrome", because your face becomes pretty bright red, and your eyes turn into little slits. It is by far the least politically correct name I have heard in a while. Vancomycin is also an antibiotic, and it was the one that they gave me right away when I arrived at Waldo County Hospital.
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