Invasion of the gram negative rods

The Proper way to Watch Football at the Hospital

Heidi was a little sick Thursday night, really sick yesterday, but when I called her this morning, she said, "better."  For those of you who are Monty Python Meaning of Life fans, the word better is always followed by better get a bucket.  Fortunately all of Heidi's bucket work finished yesterday.

They checked all the fluids.  All tests came back negative except the blood culture, which was positive for gram negative rods.  Further tests are needed to figure out which little bugger it is.  I'm guessing a bacilli or maybe something with flagella.  Hopefully one of those because that's about the limit of my bacterial anatomy vocabulary.  If not those I'll bet it's something with only a latin name, something so vile it is only written in italics.  It will be known as it who cannot be named in english or written in straight letters.

The whole point of this nonsense is that they have specific antibiotics for specific blood-borne buggies.  In the meantime she's on the basic Cefepime, which she's had many times before.  By tomorrow or maybe Monday they should have some specialty latin-named antibiotic.  That one will be named, but surely will have so many letters and syllables that it should not be attempted with a beer-infused tongue.

Our Consultation trip to Seattle on Monday is surely off.  Maybe it will get postponed for one week.  Not sure what this will do to the start of treatment.  They don't seem too well equipped to accommodate the limitations of neutropenic people and the difficulty of scheduling travel.