Day 754 - Culture Positive for Steno Malto 🧫
Monday, January 23rd, 2023 Today was Dad's day off and took in Mom's car for a tune up since we had a long drive to Atlanta this week for Dad's end of year awards banquet for Cutco. Mom spent the day with James. We received a call from one of the doctors at Nemours letting us know that the culture came back with a strong growth of stenotrophomonas maltophilia, which is a gram-negative bacterium. 🧫 😮 James has had this once before. It is antibiotic resistant and can be fatal for those i mmunocompromised individuals. It's a shame that the PICU didn't continue the Cipro that the ER gave him. James could have been on it for 5 days by now. Nemours wanted the pulmonologist's phone number (again! 😳) so they could inform them of the infection and let them decide on treatment. Mom decided to reschedule James' nutrition appointment at the hospital tomorrow since James was indeed really sick. We also changed PT to virtual. 📞 Eventually Mom heard from the pulmonolog...