Hospitalized with pneumonia

[Catseye3]

This is great news.

[Mik]

One thing I learned from a nearly two-week course of IV antibiotics is they are pumping you full of fluids too. It brought my SpO2 down. You might watch for that if SpO2 drops. With pneumonia they might be giving you a diuretic as well to prevent fluid building up in the lungs.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Hospitalized with pneumonia:

Fever gone. BP normal. I’d be home but for the fact that I need to finish a course of IV antibiotics.

Ok, glad to hear you're feeling better! So keep your hands off of the nurse's butts.

Especially Fred's.

[mark]

@jon-nyc said in Hospitalized with pneumonia:

Fever gone. BP normal. I’d be home but for the fact that I need to finish a course of IV antibiotics.

Awesome.

[Horace]

Glad you're feeling better!

[kluurs]

Today is now a good day. Great news, Jon.

[brenda]

@jon-nyc said in Hospitalized with pneumonia:

Fever gone. BP normal. I’d be home but for the fact that I need to finish a course of IV antibiotics.

[Catseye3]

So you done with the pills? Are you back in the shack?

[jon-nyc]

No I'm here still and will remain so until tomorrow morning.

Had a CT yesterday which showed lower left lobe pneumonia, which just confirmed what they got from the X-ray Monday.

Vitals are all normal.

I feel fine but they want to do a broncoscopy and see what they can grow. But barring some unforeseen event I'll leave in the morning.

[George K]

@jon-nyc will they send you home with IV antibiotics?

[jon-nyc]

No. they will have stopped them by then and moved to oral.

[Mik]

Good news. I hope all goes well.

[Renauda]

Sounds like you’ve got it licked. Hold the course.

[jon-nyc]

They found the likely source of my issues from a sputum culture. They think it started with a parainfluenza virus (which Dr. Google tells me is not flu) with the bacterial pneumonia as a later add-on.

Because of that they are canceling the bronc. I'll probably go home today with a prednisone taper and a script for ribavirin.

[Mik]

Glad to hear you are going home.

[Friday]

Happy to hear you are leaving the hospital today. There's no place like home.

[LuFins Dad]

Must be counting the minutes…

[Catseye3]

In light of all this, are they going to change your daily meds?

[jon-nyc]

I doubt it. I'm already on a daily prednisone dose of 5mg, so that will change for a while.

[Catseye3]

@jon-nyc said in Hospitalized with pneumonia:

I'm already on a daily prednisone dose of 5mg, so that will change for a while.

OIC. Knowing nothing about pharmacy, I thought maybe part of your regimen was to protect against precisely the kind of invasion that put you in the hospital this time.