All test results came back today. An infectious disease Dr. came to talk to us. Larry's oncologist called me, finally. His infection was caused by Viridans Streptococcus milleri. This is another bacteria that is becoming more antibiotic resistant. There still is no definite source of infection. The concensus among the doctors is that it started in his GI tract somewhere.
His heart ultrasound came back with no evidence of endocarditis. If the infection returns they will have to do a procedure to look further into the heart to make sure that no infection is present.
All the blood cultures taken of the port line showed no infection present. They will not have to remove the port. We breathed a sigh of relief on this one.
Last 2 blood cultures taken from his arm were clear so it looks like they were able to get the sepsis under control. Larry will go home with an antibiotic. A nurse will come to our house to teach me how to administer it into his port line. The infusion should take about 15 minutes a day. He will be on this regimen for 12 days.
His oncologist warned me that this infection could reoccur at any time. If it does, Larry said he will have to reaccess everything. We are praying that God will give him a break and allow this chemo to do its job against the cancer cells. He is scheduled to have the 2nd round of chemo in 2 weeks as long as his blood counts are good and his cultures continue to come back negative.
We are hoping that the remaining week is uneventful. A few days of boring will be good.
We want to thank everyone for their phone calls, prayers and concern. Love to All.
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Thank you for commenting and letting me know you are keeping up to date on Larry's health. Please don't feel hurt if I don't comment back. My time has been very limited lately. Hugs, Melody