Sepsis.<\/strong> I really didn\u2019t know much about Sepsis, but as I Googled it, I became more alarmed \u2013 it\u2019s serious!\u00a0 Infected kidneys and a urinary track infection were causing significant blood problems.\u00a0 I was started on an antibiotic, but was told that a blood test and analysis, which would take about 48 hours to complete, was needed to find the specific antibiotic to fight this serious infection.\u00a0 So, for two days, I was on one antibiotic and when test results came back, I was switched to another antibiotic for the next two days.\u00a0 Neither seemed to knock the Sepsis out, so a third antibiotic was tried.\u00a0 Whether it was a combination of all the antibiotics or the elevated white blood cell count that was fighting the infection, eventually the fever went away.<\/p>\nAfter five days in the hospital, I was finally released.\u00a0 I felt like I was getting out of a prison camp where I was being tortured via sleep-deprivation techniques.\u00a0 Other parts of the torture were, day-time TV which included a constant barrage of bad news.\u00a0 Before leaving the hospital I was given a \u2018mid-line\u2019<\/strong>, which is a port in my arm so that antibiotics can be administered at home \u2013 which continued for another six days.<\/p>\nNow that I\u2019m home, I have ventured all the way out to the end of the driveway, so I\u2019m hoping future blogs will be a bit more interesting.<\/p>\n
Thank you to those sending prayers and well-wishes my way \u2013 much appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Bob Sparrow As much as I enjoyed the care I got at Hoag hospital following my knee-replacement surgery, I was not looking to return to that venue any time soon.\u00a0 That plan was working up until about two weeks … read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3505],"tags":[3615,3614,3613],"class_list":["post-10141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-hoag-hospital","tag-knee-replacement","tag-sepsis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Sepsis.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aN0-2Dz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10145,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions\/10145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>So back to Hoag Hospital I went \u2013 diagnosis: Sepsis.<\/strong> I really didn\u2019t know much about Sepsis, but as I Googled it, I became more alarmed \u2013 it\u2019s serious!\u00a0 Infected kidneys and a urinary track infection were causing significant blood problems.\u00a0 I was started on an antibiotic, but was told that a blood test and analysis, which would take about 48 hours to complete, was needed to find the specific antibiotic to fight this serious infection.\u00a0 So, for two days, I was on one antibiotic and when test results came back, I was switched to another antibiotic for the next two days.\u00a0 Neither seemed to knock the Sepsis out, so a third antibiotic was tried.\u00a0 Whether it was a combination of all the antibiotics or the elevated white blood cell count that was fighting the infection, eventually the fever went away.<\/p>\n