Joe was discharged at 10:30am today and we went by the pharmacy and dropped off his prescriptions. We had one quick errand and then returned to the pharmacy to pick up his antibiotics and headed the 1 mile home. Upon our arrival, Joe got a call from Dr. Mowery that the last of the blood culture results had just come in and that it was positive for bacteria. So now we are back at Duke and Joe has been readmitted. Soon the IV will be back up running and more antibiotics as they try to determine the source and type of bacteria. Joe was able to get a shower at home and see Dolly, so at least that was positive.
We feel like prison inmates who were let out on work release for an hour and a half. But if there is bacteria swimming around in Joe's blood, we want the source found and eradicated ASAP!
Joe feels good, looks good and is ok with us retuning since it is necessary. The big guns of antibiotics will be going soon. We even got to see one of our favorite nurses from our first visit here back in 2010, Donna.
Guess it will be a surprise for our nurse Grace when she comes in at 7pm that we are here!
Here Becke and Brittany are hard at work getting 2 blood samples to do new cultures.
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