Share. Connect. Love.

Steve and Lee Brooks - Journal

Read Entries & Updates

 

Posted 2019-03-05T16:03:23Z

Waiting...

It is 3 am and I find myself once again in the emergency room tucked away in a room waiting on an admission to open up on a regular floor. It’s been a whole two weeks since we were last here. I have developed an infection in my left arm that started two days ago and has rapidly progressed from a rash on my hand to a spreading combination of a rash and large blisters that now reaches my elbow. It seems to have started from the last IV site but we are not 100% sure that is the case. The doctors are running tests and every few hours they draw a new line on my arm to mark the spread of the red streaks. Honestly, we are exhausted after having already been here for 13 hours. It took over 2 hours with different members of the IV team to get a new line started in my right arm so we could begin antibiotics. That line collapsed and infiltrated the tissue with a large amount of antibiotics. Now it is extremely swollen and feels like acid has been poured in my arm. Ugh. Currently, we are waiting on the next plan for an IV. Meanwhile, I am not getting the antibiotics that I need to stop the spreading infection in the left arm. [...]