Thursday, January 29, 2009

Prayers please

For the past week and a few days I have been battling what is believed to be a staph infection of the leg.I have been on very high doses of antibiotics for eight days now and though the infection seems to not be getting any worse, Yesterday's appointment found the Doctor baffled that there is no noticeable improvement. Now I am no stranger to baffling the medical community in general but I am starting to get worried here. I have been given an other antibiotic to overlap the first but only given two days to produce signs of healing before I get banished to the hospital. Now nobody in their right mind wants to spend three to five( or more) days quarantined to a hospital room while IVs pump oodles of the strongest antibiotics (and their side effects)known to man into them. Not to mention going in on Super Bowl weekend. On the up side, I hear that the new hospital which I would hope to go to has decent size TVs in the rooms but will they allow my husband and children to bring a Super Bowl party in ? Now I am not asking for much. Just maybe some diet coke, cocktail wienies, cheese and crackers,some deserts , and oh yes that bottle of wine that I figured that I would crack open to celebrate a Steeler victory ? What, you don't think that this would be allowed in a quarantined room ? even if everyone wore the sterile gowns, gloves and masks that would be required of my visitors ? I guess that I probably would be met with resistance, so please have a heart, pray for some improvement in this poor Steeler fan's leg by Friday afternoon, I'd be extremely grateful !