Larry never got his shower. By 1am this morning, Larry had enough of the hiccup spasms and vomiting, back to the ER we went. Their protocol for hiccups is to relax the body, yet nothing helped. 1:30am a shot of activan. 2:30am a shot of valium. 4am a shot of morphine. His body was completely relaxed except for his stomach area. Spasms and vomiting persisted. These spasms are awful and very painful. They actually seemed to get worse with the relaxation. They took him for a cat scan at 5am. Prior he had to drink a contrast solution. I am not sure how much actually stayed in him.
The cat scan results were verbal between the radiologist and ER Dr. His colon is in bad shape from the C.Diff. They called it a pseudomembranous inflammation of the colon. There was no evidence that the vancomycin had helped. They gave him a flagyl IV which actually has less response in helping get in under control in the research done. He has been on probiotics also, which have not helped so far. Could be due to his vomiting. I could not get a copy of the cat scan to see the pancreas results since they did not have it printed yet. It is Sunday and we will have to wait until tomorrow for the specialists.
I questioned 4 nurses and the Dr as to why they do not wear gloves in the ER. They have boxes of them on the wall. The only time they were put on was when they had to access his port. Blood cultures taken in each arm, IV fluids, shots into his port line, handling his vomit bag-NO GLOVES. I was told it was not necessary. I did not have the mental or verbal strength to disagree, at that time.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-08-16/deadly-bacteria-hospital-infections/57079514/1
