Hospitalized with pneumonia

[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.

[jon-nyc]

@jon-nyc said in Hospitalized with pneumonia:

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.

Ok, I was overconfident. They want to check me tonight to make sure the anti-viral doesn't do bad things. Almost certainly I'll leave in the am.

[Mik]

That's disappointing, I know. Hang in there.

[kluurs]

Prednisone always mad me want to crawl along the ceiling. I suspect you don't have that issue - but glad you're doing well.

[brenda]

@kluurs said in Hospitalized with pneumonia:

Prednisone always mad me want to crawl along the ceiling. I suspect you don't have that issue - but glad you're doing well.

Prednisone always made me want to work like crazy.

Jon, whacha doin' this weekend? My house needs painting.

[jon-nyc]

@brenda said in Hospitalized with pneumonia:

@kluurs said in Hospitalized with pneumonia:

Prednisone always mad me want to crawl along the ceiling. I suspect you don't have that issue - but glad you're doing well.

Prednisone always made me want to work like crazy.

Jon, whacha doin' this weekend? My house needs painting.

You missed your real chance. When I was in acute rejection they gave me 750mg daily, straight in the vein.