She's home again...

Chuck Ellis

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My loving wife is finally home again after 2 days shy of a 3 month stay in the hospital and nursing center.... she came down with a septic blood infection on Dec 9, stayed 2 weeks in the hospital before they sent her down to a nursing center for rehab and antibiotic infusion therapy.... then after an MRI on her back, she was ordered back to the hospital for back surgery and a biopsy of the back bone.... they did the biopsy, but the ortho doctor decided not to do back surgery, so another week and half in the hospital where they also did an echo gram of her heart because they were concerned the blood infection might have affected it, there they found her mitral valve leaking and with "vegetation" growth on it.... and decided she might need a valve replacement, but since that hospital didn't do heart valves, she was transferred to another hospital downtown.... there the cardiologist decided that the valve wasn't severe enough to replace and could likely have been leaking for years since she does have atril fibrillation and has had since her early 20's, but it took them 3 days to finally transfer back to the nursing center for anoth4er 4 weeks of antibiotic infusion therapy.... finally Friday they infectious disease doctor said she was able to go home.... she's home...

But we still need to find out why she has so much pain in her back... initially early on there was a diagnosis of a narrowing of her spine at the L4-L5 vertebrae which in all of this time has still not been addressed.

But she's home for now.... I think bachelorhood is much overrated.
 
I'll just echo what the other guys have already said. Being back home surely will help in her continued healing. :thumb:
 
Sure looks like your wife, and you, have been through an awful lot of pain & suffering. Must have been difficult with all the contrary indecision by the various doctors. Hope the healing process is quick & permanent. Best to both.
 
Thanks guys, appreciate all the kind words and well wishes... we went into the hospital today to have the port taken out of her chest for the infusion therapy.... she was scheduled for an echo cardiogram tomorrow, but we've postponed that until the 26th... it was only minor surgery taking the port out, but still it will need to heal a little before they run the transducer for the echo over her chest.... we have a consultation on the 18th with a cardiologist/neurosurgeon to see about the back pain... his specialty is sciatica and the sciatic nerve which we suspect we're dealing with....
 
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