Saturday, March 14, 2009

Good and bad news!!!

So I got the call yesterday from the dr. The great news is that all my tests, they have run so far, are negative! The bad news is that I definitely have a bad case of pneumonia. They tested my strain against all their meds and nothing works to kill it. Par for the course right? They tested it against regular amoxicillin and it had some effect but didn't kill it. So they put me on a 14 day course of antibiotics in hopes it will lessen the infection enough for my body to keep fighting it. They are still running the Tuberculosis and fungal tests. They won't be ready for another 5 weeks. So for now we are resting, taking the my medicine and waiting. Sounds fun huh? I have to go back if I don't start feeling better or if I start to feel worse. There is not much else to do. I go back in for another sputum test after this round of medicine is over to see if the infection is going away. It isn't such a great feeling to know that they have no medicine to help this go away. Anyway, I just wanted to pop on and let you know the news. I have to go finish my movie marathon now. Hope you have a great night!

1 comment:

  1. Glad to hear that you got some good news. Hopefully everything will take care of itself and you'll be back to yourself again. It's just crazy that they've gone this long with no definite diagnosis.

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