SURPRISE!

Well, we were home one day and then: early Friday morning, I started to have some "chest pains".They were in the center of the chest and amounted to small pains on inhaling, then ok on exhaling. We discusssed what to do, then waited to see if anything changed. We decided to go to the emergency room at Palatka Hospital. A short wait to get into the system and then about 4 hours later, we were allowed to go home. They did an EKG, chest x-ray, blood test, and some other basic tests such as blood pressure, oxygen level, etc. It turned out to be, essentially, a small amount of fluid in the bottom of the left lung. Copies of the chest x-ray from Flagler showed the same fluid. So the nice Dr said we could go home, or stay in the hospital. We took his prescription for another antibiotic and went home. The pain went away, and everything has been fine since.We did not take his antibiotic, because we wanted to check with our regular Dr, about the wisdom of taking 3-4 different antibiotics at the same time.

When we left the hospital, there were 25-30 people in the waiting room as opposed to the 2-3 that were present when we originally arrive. It turned out there had been a fight at the high school, resulting in 25 people being sent to the emergency room. So although we spent the day at the hospital, it could have been much worse. We got home in time to meet with Katie, and have our second training session with the PICC system. I forgot to mention that Norma gave up her day to be with us at the hospital, and she also received some training in how to administer the antibiotic.

Today is Sunday, the 14th and everything appears to have settled down.