From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2003-07-03 20:49:49 UTC
Subject: Chiclet (bacterial infection and cellulitis in 6 month old)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-id: <a06001800bb2a3fd17d80@[10.0.1.42]>
Well, we have her home. We've got a folding cage on our dining table
set up with its top open and her IV which hangs from the dining room
chandelier and goes through the top of the cage, her IV pump is on
top of the book set _Cambridge World History of Food_ (food history
is a hobby of mine) and tied to the chandelier by string through it's
handle to make sure it is stable. She needs a setting for now of 4.0
ml/hr.
One of her things is an experimental compound which she has on an
experimental basis so we're not allowed to talk about it. It does
seem to have helped but it's maker is worried that she is already too
compromised. (Basically, it's going to be hard as heck to get her
through this if we all succeed and we sure hope we do, but we are a
bit closer to her vet's home if an emergency starts than the hospital
is, and she was getting too depressed at the hospital which was
reducing her chances. She has already agreed to eat for us.)
Besides that, the flush for her IV, and more a/d we have the
following for her: Biaxin, Pepcid, Ampicillin, Carafate, and some
Torb in case she begins to be uncomfortable.
Obviously, we are back on shifts and I won't have a lot of time.