Icky

[wolf]

Nope.

Gram negative bacteria in the blood, not a UTI (first thing you test for in a female nursing home patient, incidentally). Tatadoc says that's usually either bowel or gall bladder ... well, crazynurse had her gall bladder out years ago, so it's not that, which leaves bowel, or something else.

My suspicion is that over at the pitfromhell's dialysis center sterile procedure isn't, and the badbug was introduced directly into her system.

Before leaving last night I had to write a list on her whiteboard:

1. No one is trying to kill you.
2. You are safe.
3. You are not melting.
4. You are at Abington Memorial Hospital.
5. No one is making a movie about you. There are no actors here. Those are real doctors and real nurses. Yes, there is a video camera in the corner of a room. It's to monitor your safety.
6. Everybody you know is okay. You need to focus on getting better.

Her BP crashed last night, and they were having trouble stabilizing it, nearly transferred her to ICU, but they managed her medically okay and she's still on Cardiac telemetry.

I was feverishly (ha ha) texting tatadoc ... she had some concerns stuff was being overlooked and called the surgical resident on call and sent her in to take a look at the things she was suspecting.

leaving shortly to check in on her for today.