2nd Hospitalization

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hospital stay #2-

Fast forward to Thanksgiving, 2 days after my dad's antibiotics ran out and he's feeling ill again. Same thing with uncontrollable shivering again accompanied by a fever. We convince him to go back into the hospital's ER on Friday November 24th and it was a good thing he did. It became apparent after a few days of more exams and more misdiagnoses that he had caught some antibiotic resistant infection from his surgery and that it had pooled creating a liquid abscess in the spot where they removed his previous abscess 3 weeks prior. They used interventional radiology to place a drainage tube in his side and was put on a full spectrum of heavy duty antibiotics. It took a few tries to figure out the combination of three which worked on his bacterial infection.

After 2 weeks in the hospital his insurance sent him home on Friday December 10th with the drainage tube still in and 2 weeks more of antibiotics. Thankfully we had an excellent home care nurse, Rosie, come by the house daily to empty and flush his highly contagious drain. After those antibiotics ran out, he was finally 100% cured of the infection and was almost fully recovered from his gallbladder and liver surgery.