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That was delightful...
Jan. 21st, 2007 02:11 amWhile the infection started to react to the drugs overnight, the doctors decided that it wasn't happening fast enough and decided to operate on my mom this morning. So, she's going be in the hospital for the next few days.
They more or less opened up the foot and flushed the infection out. Everything went according to plan, but there's going to be a second operation tomorrow morning just to make sure that everything was cleaned out.
How we ended up at this point is an odd series of events I just learned about today. Originally, mom was being treated at a clinic, but the drugs weren't really reacting and giving her bad side effects. On the Friday, the clinic ran out of medication and she got sent to the Urgent Care ward of Saint Joseph's Hospital for treatment. While waiting for treatment, a doctor passing somehow learned about this infection, checked out my mom's foot and then insisted on getting the foot x-rayed. The x-rays turned out worse than they expected so she was admitted into the hospital for overnight treatment.
Thus bringing us to the point that we're at now.
Mom seems to be fine and improving. Her left leg used to be swollen and hot to the touch, but it's cooled down. Her blood sugar spiked high yesterday, but since the surgery it's dropped to just above the normal range. I don't know about the pain, since they have her on painkillers now. She had a bag of morphine this evening and it was... interesting. While there is going to be a surgery tomorrow, it's clearly not as major as today's. She's getting breakfast, which is a good sign as the hospital has had her on a fast for the past 36 hours or so.
The only problem now is the healing time, because it appears that mom is getting bored. I don't blame her - she's in a shared room and doesn't even have the window view. Janet and I bought a stack of trashy magazines for her to read ('cause those are apparently fun and all. I wouldn't know personally.), although we might get the TV hooked up in her room if she has to stay longer. That costs an arm and a leg now - $17 a day for the first day, $12 for the days following.
They more or less opened up the foot and flushed the infection out. Everything went according to plan, but there's going to be a second operation tomorrow morning just to make sure that everything was cleaned out.
How we ended up at this point is an odd series of events I just learned about today. Originally, mom was being treated at a clinic, but the drugs weren't really reacting and giving her bad side effects. On the Friday, the clinic ran out of medication and she got sent to the Urgent Care ward of Saint Joseph's Hospital for treatment. While waiting for treatment, a doctor passing somehow learned about this infection, checked out my mom's foot and then insisted on getting the foot x-rayed. The x-rays turned out worse than they expected so she was admitted into the hospital for overnight treatment.
Thus bringing us to the point that we're at now.
Mom seems to be fine and improving. Her left leg used to be swollen and hot to the touch, but it's cooled down. Her blood sugar spiked high yesterday, but since the surgery it's dropped to just above the normal range. I don't know about the pain, since they have her on painkillers now. She had a bag of morphine this evening and it was... interesting. While there is going to be a surgery tomorrow, it's clearly not as major as today's. She's getting breakfast, which is a good sign as the hospital has had her on a fast for the past 36 hours or so.
The only problem now is the healing time, because it appears that mom is getting bored. I don't blame her - she's in a shared room and doesn't even have the window view. Janet and I bought a stack of trashy magazines for her to read ('cause those are apparently fun and all. I wouldn't know personally.), although we might get the TV hooked up in her room if she has to stay longer. That costs an arm and a leg now - $17 a day for the first day, $12 for the days following.
