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  1. I am home, with home-based intravenous antibiotics. We start infusing through a Tunnelling PICC line in the upper right corner of my chest Sunday morning shortly after 10am. Wish us luck.

    1. Daytime Waitress

      Daytime Waitress

      It ain't a perfect Christmas, but at least you're home for it - all the best, Lee!

  2. My white blood cell count is down, from 15.2 to 11.9. I'm going home today, barring any last minute screwups. End of line.

  3. Well, smeg. I'm stuck in the hospital for another night. Saw my podiatrist this evening and learned that my white blood cell count had jumped from 12 to 15 overnight. He's keeping me to see if it goes down in the morning. If it does, he'll let me go home. If not...well, we'll come to that if it happens.

     

    I also learned that family Christmas has been temporarily postponed due to illness of several of the hosting family members. Looks like I'm not the only one sick, although I am the only one in the hospital. It'll be rescheduled soon.

  4. In the latest twist to the osteomyelitis saga, it looks like I might get to go home today after all. I've still got to get a PICC line inserted while I'm unconscious, have IV drugs delivered to my house, and figure out who's going to be doing what and going where over the next few days. I may be riding down to Austin with a tennis ball full of cefepime infusing into me en route. Stay tuned.

    1. wallabra

      wallabra

      Exciting news! I hope the overview continues to improve. Here's hoping you'll get to spend Christmas with family!

  5. I've finally met with the infectious disease doctor, and there has been a bit of a revision to the story. Here goes.

     

    Once the bone biopsy sample decalcified, parts of it were sent to two different labs - pathology and microbiology. Pathology studied it under the microscope and determined that it had been subjected to acute osteomyelitis. Microbiology tried to grow cultures from it, but since I'd been on antibiotics for over 5 days already, nothing new grew, so they were unable to determine exactly what kind of organism was causing the osteomyelitis.

     

    As a result, I'm going to have to remain on the two broad-spectrum IV antibiotics I'm already on...for 6 weeks. I'm not going home any time soon. I'll most likely be sent to another Skilled Nursing Center, LTAC, or something similar. I'm pretty sure of the place I'll go - I've been there twice before.

     

    So much for family Christmas. Sigh.

    1. Enzo Carozza

      Enzo Carozza

      I'm so sorry to hear this.
      Wish you best of luck, Lee!

    2. plums

      plums

      Sad news. I hope the time in the hospital means you'll be literally back on your feet by the time you leave.

    3. wallabra

      wallabra

      That's really icky... I'm so sorry for you. Take care of yourself and hope you make do for a decent Christmas at least.

  6. I have been told by my hospital doctor this morning that my bone biopsy has shown signs of growth in the medium. In short, I have osteomyelitis.

     

    How this is going to affect my schedule is uncertain right now. They still don't know what kind of infection I have in my bone, but in any case it's going to require IV antibiotics. I might be able to go home with them, but it's doubtful. I'll find out more when I see the infectious diseases doctor later today.

     

    No idea how this is going to affect family Christmas yet. Sigh.

    1. wallabra

      wallabra

      Good luck Lee! Sounds like a tough situation to be in. Hope you still manage to have some time with family this Christmas all the same.

  7. My right foot and my lower right leg are closer to normal, thanks to the 1-2 punch of the vancomycin and the cefepime. Meanwhile, the bone biopsy sample continues to show no growth in the lab, according to the doctors. If this continues through Wednesday, I may be able to come home Thursday with just a prescription for oral antibiotics instead of IV antibiotics. This would allow my wife and myself to go down to the family Christmas get-together in the Georgetown (north of Austin) area this weekend, making my wife extremely happy. ;) Only time will tell.

    1. Enzo Carozza

      Enzo Carozza

      Really glad to hear you're doing better, Lee. :)

  8. I'm in the queue for more surgery, Sunday morning. The podiatrist isn't happy with the pain I'm still having and thinks there may still be hidden abscesses, so he's going to go in and find out. He'll check out the bottom of my foot, and the inner side of my big toe. I'm hoping he cleans out whatever he finds.

    1. Enzo Carozza

      Enzo Carozza

      Again: wish you well, sir. ^^

    2. SuperPIter_DoomWorldthe2nd

      SuperPIter_DoomWorldthe2nd

      Hope everything works out for you, Lee. Stay frosty out there.

    3. leejacksonaudio

      leejacksonaudio

      My surgery is scheduled for 7am Sunday morning. It's now just past 12:20 a.m., and I'm on NPO (nothing by mouth) until the surgery. I'm scheduled to take my pain pills at 5am, so there'll be a slight exception for that, I hope. Otherwise, some shouting will occur.

  9. I am in the hospital with an infection in my right foot. It has swollen up out of control, especially my big toe. The doctors have been giving me powerful antibiotics (Zosyn and Vancomycin), but they're not working. My podiatrist came in today, drained the big toe, and sent off the fluid for a culture. He also ordered a CT scan on my foot to see if there were any additional pockets of infection hidden away that he needs to cut out. We're still working on this, with no end in sight yet.

    1. Enzo Carozza

      Enzo Carozza

      Oh lord, super sorry to hear that. :(
      I hope you get well soon, Lee!

    2. OliveTree

      OliveTree

      oh gosh im sorry to hear that. Stay strong, Lee, I hope recovery comes as smoothly as it can.

  10. leejacksonaudio

    What are you listening to?

    A piece I wrote called "Interweave." It's for a composition competition. I haven't turned it in yet, but I'm about to do so.
  11. leejacksonaudio

    2023 Cacowards

    Public thanks to @Scuba Steve for giving me a mention in the DOOT Eternal section. Much obliged!
  12. leejacksonaudio

    What are you listening to?

    Slow movements of Mozart symphonies. It's research for a competition.
  13. leejacksonaudio

    opinions on pineapple on pizza?

    My wife loves it. I loathe it, at least on pizza. Now, give me some fresh pineapple by itself and I'll down a half pound of the stuff at a sitting.
  14. leejacksonaudio

    Share a random fact about yourself

    Backstory first: So, this one time, in Band Camp Contest... This happened in my sophomore year of high school (1978-79), at our annual Region Marching Band Contest. I'd been a cymbal player in the drumline most of the year, but for the contest show, the band director had me play a tambourine during our opening number, and swap between the tambourine and a cowbell during the big production closing number. Everything went fine in rehearsals and in the halftime show the night before, but for some reason a freshman bass drummer wound up taking my tambourine home with him, with copious promises that he'd remember to bring it back for Contest. He didn't. So, in short, I improvised, and wound up playing our whole smegging Region Marching Band Contest program on a gorram cowbell. I was the living embodiment of the phrase, "More Cowbell," before Christopher Walken ever walked onto the set of Saturday Night Live. And so it goes.
  15. leejacksonaudio

    What Was Your Last Purchase?

    Four decongestant sprays and a butt wiper wand.
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