Thurs July 30 9:20pm

Today has been a good day. Mom's knee is less swollen and is almost back to a normal temp. The knee is still very tender to touch, but doesn't pain Mom other than that. This is good news. She can move her knee some without too much pain. She has only taken 1 pain pill and that was Wed. night.

Dr. Metros the orthopedic/sports medicine doctor stopped in this evening. He is not sure that there is an infection in her knee. Boy, I love it when the doctors don't agree! ARGH! He is coming in tomorrow and draining the fluid off of her knee and will send in his own cultures. We don't know any results yet of the cultures that were from the fluid taken in the doctors office on Tues.

I don't know if we are going home tomorrow or not. There has not been any discussion about that yet. I am thinking that these 2 doctors need to talk to each other before anyone discharges Mom.

So, until I know more Friday AM, goodnight.

July 28 Update, 10am

Well, here is the new plan of attack for Grandma: She was admitting again to the hosp. on Tues afternoon.

Wed.: Mr. Mallow (internist) came in this morning and we are going to attack this with a vengeance apparently. She is going to get another PICC line. This allows her to have IV antibiotics, which she will need between 2-4 weeks, depending on how her knee responds. The knee is still very warm and painful this morning she has had 2 IV antibiotic treatments so far. The PICCC line allows me to do the IV antibiotics at home when she is discharged; the length of stay is still to be determined.

She is having a MRI with contrast right now at 9:30am. Also, she will have a cardiac echo to make sure that her heart is functioning properly. She will also have an ortho. consult to check her knee. If the antibiotics don’t or can’t clear up the infection, she might need surgery. GAWD I hope not, she is not one for surgery, let alone rehab. She does have an order for pain medical for her knee.

She feels good other than her knee right now. As you can imagine, she is very frustrated being fussed over. More info to come as it arises. Jennie

Jennie

Mom of a US Army officer! Commissioning is in Aug. Then off to OK or GA for more training. Mess with me and you can deal with him. I have a new daughter. Sean married Karli Kinon McFarling on May 24th.

Busy helping to plan a wedding for Shelby and Peter for June 2010.
EX-CA Grand Bethel MARSHAL Mom ;(, but Shelby made it a year to remember forever.