The visit to Dr. Rojas, the infectious disease doctor, went well. He reaffirmed what Dr. Shorie is doing about the steph. Continue with the Vancomycin for a total of four weeks from the time the catheter was replaced so that will be for 2½ more weeks. Then they will take another blood culture to see if it is all gone. He said usually the first two weeks of treatment would have been enough but with my multiple problems, it will take a longer period of time. It will be a total of six weeks of Vancomycin and that should kill out about anything.

The catheter is still quite sore and this one is much longer and seems to be larger than the other one. I will get used to it but will be glad when the stitches are removed. They are very tight and uncomfortable.

I have to have blood again on Thursday but the platelets were 22,000 and that is higher than they have been in a very long time.