Hi Everyone,
I am still in the hospital. Hopefully I will be discharged tomorrow of course with home IVs. I have had test after test. I had a bronch on Wedneday and they could not find where the bleeding was coming from. Then I continued to cough up blood so they did an embolization on Friday. I have had no bleeding since. My doctor decided to treat a different bacteria than he was treating earlier this summer. I think it is working. The scary thing is this bacteria, acinetobacter is resident to most antibiotics. My lungs sound and feel much better. On Thursday, my PFTs had already increased 11% since the week before. All summer they had only gone up 3%. I think I am on the right track. I have been out of work for 8 weeks. Mentally, I need to go back.
On a lighter note my dog had her puppies. Eight of them. She had great timing...she had them the night i waas admitted. I missed the whole thing. I got to go home yesterday on a pass to see them. Oh my they are adorable. I will post pictures in my blog tomorrow when I get home.
I hope everyone is having a better summer than me.
I am still in the hospital. Hopefully I will be discharged tomorrow of course with home IVs. I have had test after test. I had a bronch on Wedneday and they could not find where the bleeding was coming from. Then I continued to cough up blood so they did an embolization on Friday. I have had no bleeding since. My doctor decided to treat a different bacteria than he was treating earlier this summer. I think it is working. The scary thing is this bacteria, acinetobacter is resident to most antibiotics. My lungs sound and feel much better. On Thursday, my PFTs had already increased 11% since the week before. All summer they had only gone up 3%. I think I am on the right track. I have been out of work for 8 weeks. Mentally, I need to go back.
On a lighter note my dog had her puppies. Eight of them. She had great timing...she had them the night i waas admitted. I missed the whole thing. I got to go home yesterday on a pass to see them. Oh my they are adorable. I will post pictures in my blog tomorrow when I get home.
I hope everyone is having a better summer than me.