Monday Update

Well, my doctor actually came around fairly early today! Still not much news. My sputum culture did grow out the usual gram-negative bacteria. More than likely it was psuedomonas that caused the infection. So they are stopping my Vancomycin and just continuing with the Tobra and Fortaz.

I still didn't sleep much last night, so I'm trying an Ambien tonight! My O2 sats have still been running lower. I kept the monitor on for a few hours this morning, and it was consistently around 92/93. My doctor ordered a spirometer for me to blow on, to help get them back up. He said it's probably just from lack of air moving around in my lungs. So we'll continue to monitor that! He did say that my xray did not look any worse today...so that's good news!

No word on when I'm going home. I'm starting to think that it may not be on Wednesday....who knows???

I'm about to take a shower and after receiving one of my IV antibiotics, walk around the unit some!! My nurse today (and some of yesterday after arriving on HTICU) got me lunch at a nearby restaurant. She's so sweet! I definitely feel at home on this unit!

I hope everyone's Monday is going well so far! I'll update again when there is new news!!