March 2006 Archives

Finals are over, so bring on the body shots! Well, maybe not. This quarter I earned a 3.9 in Philosophy, a 3.9 in Organic Chemistry, and a 4.0 in Microbiology. I'm so happy to get a break from school!

During the break, Kelly and I plan on painting the bathroom. The last owner did a poor job. We've got some paint chips, but we haven't picked a color yet. I'm thinking lime green with mandarin orange trim. Kelly isn't really into citrus colors, but I'll convince him.

Kelly is feeling good, and the home care is proceeding as planned. The IV antibiotics will be done on the 31st, and hopefully the wound vac will come off next Wednesday.

Last weekend, we met Kelly's parents and some friends, Don and Renee, at the Palouse Falls. It was a lovely day, and the falls are very awe-inspiring. Below are some pics.

The group Rainbow The River Bikers

With my doctors' consent, I will hopefully be checking out of the hospital today.  Arrangements have been made with home health groups to continue my IV antibiotics and wound-vac maintainence at home.  My blood sugar has still been high, but everyone assures us that it's due to the infection.  With any luck, I'll be able to do some work from home, as I'm running low on leave.  More later once we know what's going to happen.

As of last Thursday night, I'm back in the hospital again.  The abcesses I have been dealing with took a turn for the worse and surgery became necessary to clean them up.  The surgery was Friday, and went very well.  Yesterday, they installed a PICC catheter so that I can possibly go home with IV antibiotics.  I will probably get another wound-vac, similar to the one I had back at Baptist in LR.  I don't know about going to work, but I will sure feel good to be at home.  Nobody can explain how I developed these MRSA infected abcesses so long after my surgery, but hopefully they can knock them out for good.  So that's the news from 10 Tower.