Cancel Baitcon ride request, and update on status
With the information I have today, I think it's probably Not A Good Idea I go as far away from civilization as Baitcon. I strongly suspect the MedStaff will be happy about this decision.
They've decided that I very definitely have cellulitis. After one dose of levaquim and 3 doses of vancomycin, my white blood count is down to normal. It has not spread to my blood stream.
My a1c is 9.45 (I might have the last two digits wrong), and the hospitalist was about to start me on insulin immediately; despite being from the same specialist group I see, he had either missed or not looked hard enough to notice that I already have an endocrinologist and have been being treated for years. I talked him down to, "let me use my own testing kit (that I haven't had in months) and get some normal-situation-numbers for me, and I'll discuss it with my endo at my already scheduled appointment next month."
My blood pressure is all over the place. 99/40 has been the lowest, 150/90 (ish) has been the highest. Earlier today it was 120/60, this evening it was 145/90. Fuck if I know. Pain spikes my BP hard.
For that matter, not eating spikes my blood sugar; I tested it once: after sleeping 8+hours, I took my bg, 200+. I drank water, waited an hour, took it again, same. I drank a cup of plain tea - circa 5g carbs - down to 120. So fuckall there, too. Of course, they only take bg here immediately BEFORE a meal, not after meals. Despite my request.
The hospitalist called in an infectious disease doc. His opinion is that the levaquim was a wasted med, that I'm vastly underdosed on the vancomycin, and wants to put me on cefazolin. When I told him about the interment of Otter's ashes on Saturday, he offered that, if I don't react badly to the cefazolin, he'd send me home tomorrow with home-IV antibiotics. He's going to give me 10 days worth, and wants to see me again, and warned me that it will get worse before it gets better, and will probably going to take longer than 10 days.
They were already putting a 'mid-line catheter' in my arm for the IV stuff. That just makes the home-iv more feasible.
I had my first dose of the new antibiotic around 5pm, and sure enough, my pain levels went nuts about 3 hours later. It took me another half hour to make the connection. I'm hoping that the pain level rise is associated with that, cause I don't know what it is otherwise, I'm taking more tramadol daily.
But no, I'm not taking my home-IV up to Baitcon.
Will miss you all!
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They've decided that I very definitely have cellulitis. After one dose of levaquim and 3 doses of vancomycin, my white blood count is down to normal. It has not spread to my blood stream.
My a1c is 9.45 (I might have the last two digits wrong), and the hospitalist was about to start me on insulin immediately; despite being from the same specialist group I see, he had either missed or not looked hard enough to notice that I already have an endocrinologist and have been being treated for years. I talked him down to, "let me use my own testing kit (that I haven't had in months) and get some normal-situation-numbers for me, and I'll discuss it with my endo at my already scheduled appointment next month."
My blood pressure is all over the place. 99/40 has been the lowest, 150/90 (ish) has been the highest. Earlier today it was 120/60, this evening it was 145/90. Fuck if I know. Pain spikes my BP hard.
For that matter, not eating spikes my blood sugar; I tested it once: after sleeping 8+hours, I took my bg, 200+. I drank water, waited an hour, took it again, same. I drank a cup of plain tea - circa 5g carbs - down to 120. So fuckall there, too. Of course, they only take bg here immediately BEFORE a meal, not after meals. Despite my request.
The hospitalist called in an infectious disease doc. His opinion is that the levaquim was a wasted med, that I'm vastly underdosed on the vancomycin, and wants to put me on cefazolin. When I told him about the interment of Otter's ashes on Saturday, he offered that, if I don't react badly to the cefazolin, he'd send me home tomorrow with home-IV antibiotics. He's going to give me 10 days worth, and wants to see me again, and warned me that it will get worse before it gets better, and will probably going to take longer than 10 days.
They were already putting a 'mid-line catheter' in my arm for the IV stuff. That just makes the home-iv more feasible.
I had my first dose of the new antibiotic around 5pm, and sure enough, my pain levels went nuts about 3 hours later. It took me another half hour to make the connection. I'm hoping that the pain level rise is associated with that, cause I don't know what it is otherwise, I'm taking more tramadol daily.
But no, I'm not taking my home-IV up to Baitcon.
Will miss you all!
This entry was originally posted at https://khatru.dreamwidth.org/14838.html. You can comment here, or there using OpenID. There are
comments there. Hopefully this is doing the right thing.