Post by wanderinweasels on Mar 23, 2009 8:17:30 GMT -5
Hubby is doing a lot better. The docs say that the infection is about 75% contained. They have about decided to send him home on oral antibiotics instead of a PIC line and IV antibiotics . . . which I think is a BIG mistake!! His doctor has to check with the infectious disease people and let them make the final decision. I know that the PIC line could possibly cause another infection but I also know that oral antibiotics don't do a lot sometimes with MRSA. I don't want to have to rush him back in a week or so because the MRSA has decided to come back strong. He has diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney and heart problems and I just don't know if he could handle a recurrence of this awful infection!! But, I guess the doctors know best.
I also heard on the news today that MRSA in hospitals is spread primarily by the health care workers. After being around the hospital John is in I can understand this!! I stepped two feet outside his room to get his dinner tray the other day without taking off my gloves and gown and got reprimanded by a desk clerk. But what gets me is the nurses, doctors, housekeepers and others who don't follow the guidelines and wander in and out of his room doing different things that come in "bare"!!! The food service workers have to leave the MRSA patients food trays in the hallway to get cold until a nurse comes along to move it into the room but the food workers come in the room to pick up the empty trays!! DUH!!! And when they put him in a different room yesterday they just left him in the bed he was in and rolled the bed down the hallway to his new room. They also moved his night stand and table. And he is in a quarantine room and they leave the door standing open! Does this make sense?? And when a MRSA patient checks out while still having open sores and infection how is this considered safe?!?!?! I want hubby home but these procedures mystify me. Oh, well!! I don't make the rules I just try to follow them.
I also heard on the news today that MRSA in hospitals is spread primarily by the health care workers. After being around the hospital John is in I can understand this!! I stepped two feet outside his room to get his dinner tray the other day without taking off my gloves and gown and got reprimanded by a desk clerk. But what gets me is the nurses, doctors, housekeepers and others who don't follow the guidelines and wander in and out of his room doing different things that come in "bare"!!! The food service workers have to leave the MRSA patients food trays in the hallway to get cold until a nurse comes along to move it into the room but the food workers come in the room to pick up the empty trays!! DUH!!! And when they put him in a different room yesterday they just left him in the bed he was in and rolled the bed down the hallway to his new room. They also moved his night stand and table. And he is in a quarantine room and they leave the door standing open! Does this make sense?? And when a MRSA patient checks out while still having open sores and infection how is this considered safe?!?!?! I want hubby home but these procedures mystify me. Oh, well!! I don't make the rules I just try to follow them.
