Possible good news

Today we went to St Augustine to see Dr #4, in our tangled mess. This was our third trip to St Augustine this week, and tomorrow, we go that way again.

Today,we visited Dr. Manacal, who is the infectious disease Doctor assigned to us when we went into the hospital to remove the knee apparatus. He is the one that controlled and co-ordinated the anti-biotic program concerning the empty knee. We did not see him, but rather, his assistant, Amy. We are done with him right now, until we get to the point of actually re-inserting the knee replacement, when they will make sure the infection is really gone.

Early this week, we completed the series of Cat scans of the kidney that had been ordered by Dr Malik, the kidney specialist, and we will not learn the results of these tests until next Tuesday.

However, we have made sure that each Dr gets a copy of the blood tests that we now have done weekly. Amy had their copy of the test done on Tuesday, and she was willing to share some of the info. Some value in the previous blood tests was 4.9 and 5.1 which indicated some kind of potential kidney problem. The value obtained on Mondays test was 2.9 and a "normal" reading is about 1.9, so we are trending downward. So hopefully there is no kidney problem.

This will mean 3 out 4 Doctors will clear us to go North for a while, so maybe we will be coming North for a while. Keep tuned.