Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Escape velocity
We hung around all day yesterday and most of today waiting for the pathologist to name the bacteria that had grown out in Jacob's blood culture. Our oncologist suggested calling it Sam, but he was voted down.
They never did discover Sam's true identity, but they did find an antibiotic he is sensitive to, so, after much delay, we got to come home tonight. A nurse came out to the house and taught me how to give him the IV antibiotics. It's much simpler than I imagined.
Almost lost in the whirlwind of escape were two appointments today: audiology and MRI. We won't get the results of the MRI for a few days (I will definitly post when we do), but the audiology showed that Jacob's hearing is undamaged by the chemo. That's a great thing because cisplatin can sometimes cause severe enough hearing loss to curtail it's use.
There were beautiful calla lillies on my front porch when we got home.
They never did discover Sam's true identity, but they did find an antibiotic he is sensitive to, so, after much delay, we got to come home tonight. A nurse came out to the house and taught me how to give him the IV antibiotics. It's much simpler than I imagined.
Almost lost in the whirlwind of escape were two appointments today: audiology and MRI. We won't get the results of the MRI for a few days (I will definitly post when we do), but the audiology showed that Jacob's hearing is undamaged by the chemo. That's a great thing because cisplatin can sometimes cause severe enough hearing loss to curtail it's use.
There were beautiful calla lillies on my front porch when we got home.
# posted by Ann @ 11:57 PM 
