After putting mom on oral antibiotics and dripping 20 drops of iron into her feeding, all doesn’t seems to work.
Mom is showing resistence in the oral antibiotics CIPRO. After 5 days of dosage, the UTI is still lingering in her body.
So, we were advised to an intravenous (IV) antibiotic treatment and intravenous iron supplement. Nurse came [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 28, 2009
More treatments
March 13, 2009
Internal Bleeding
Looks like the recent infection is a serious one…..not the usual UTI.
Blood test results show pretty low red blood cells, standing currently at 7 compared to the acceptable 14.
Doc suspected internal bleeding, which may be caused by PEG. Mom has been put on Omeprazole (ZIMOR) ever since she had her PEG surgery done. Her dosage had been 1 [...]
March 12, 2009
Infection again….
For the past 3 days, my mom had been having a fever. And this is the first sign that an infection is lingering…..
We popped Panadol in to control the temperature, in an attempt and hope that the infection is not a serious one. I have suspected Urinary Tract Infection (UTI), very common among the bedridden. [...]
March 8, 2009
And 5 March came….
As I waited for 5 March to arrive, I made all the arrangements to bring mother to TTSH – NNI.
The current NNI is pretty much the same as the NNI I visited several years ago, except that the staff there looks more ‘free’ than any other clinics.
Registration at NNI is a breeze because there is [...]
