Hold Tight and Pretend It's a Plan

Jon has had visits this morning from the hospitalist, pulmonary specialist and Infectious Disease doctor. (I missed all of them, they were running earlier today than yesterday.) No one had much to say except that the ID doc was in charge, and he is leaning toward letting Jon go home today. They haven't solved the mystery but the mystery doesn't seem all that compelling anymore. He is just sitting in a hospital bed, feeling fine. It seems that the incident has gone on by. I guess the lesson is just that Jon's immune system is as unreliable as they keep saying it is, and we need to continue to be vigilant.  And that mold and fungus can have a fast effect on lungs that are already not in perfect condition.  We knew that, we just have to remember it.  It may take half a day to get him discharged, but he is very hopeful that he will be able to get home and set up the irrigation for the onions this evening. That would be great. ... 2:45 update -- we are home.  Yay!

Jon is a patient at Virginia Hospital Center, admitted last night. He called Kaiser yesterday to say that he had a fever and a longstanding cough -- and they told him to skip past Urgent Care and go straight to the Emergency Room.  That is not what he wanted to hear. But it was worrisome that his fever went up so fast, and to the place (100.5) that he is mandated to report. He looked kind of bad yesterday evening, but he certainly was not anxious to go to the ER. The ER was very crowded, and we had to wait a while, but they got him into his own room with a curtain. The hallways were packed with people on stretchers, and the usual police hanging around.  Jon was clearly not in big trouble, but they did lots of tests.  X-ray, EKG, CT scan, blood cultures. Gave him some vancomycin right away.  They admitted him to keep an eye on him. He could see that coming and he wasn't pleased about it, but transplant patients with fevers are a special breed, and they weren't going t...