Thurs. update

Well, we ended up having 3 RN's here today! The first one came to bring the antibiotics and all the supplies for the midline IV (like a pic line but shorter). I hooked him up and got the 1st home dose into him without any problems. The 2nd nurse was from Greenville Home Health and she changed the dressing which had just been changed yesterday, and he had a rash and a lot of guck there. Well, a while later I noticed there was a lot of bright red blood under the dressing. So I called Sherry back and told her and she put a call into the infectous disease dr.'s office. She got permission for home health to pull the midline! Yippee!!!! I am sooo relieved. It was burning, itching, driving him and me crazy! He is now on antibiotics by mouth! Praise the Lord!!!! Preston has always had sensitive skin; so it was not working out. I am just glad the staph infection was not the untreatable kind and that he was able to get several days of powerful antibiotics (vancomycin & another one) through IV's. He has been so relaxed and happy today. There is no place like home.

I can't believe how exhausted we all feel, and this was a short hospital stay. But Junior thinks maybe we haven't fully recovered from the 9 week stay we had about 6 months ago. We are not getting any younger either.

Missie and I did some school today in between the nurses' visits. She and I watched the latest Janette Oke Love Comes Softly dvd together tonight. I just needed to relax. I am working on a set of "apple" notecards to try and sell. I got 2 out of set completed today.

Lord willing, Preston is wanting to attend church Sunday night. So we will see if he feels up to it.