Vanco

Dad's fever hit 102 last night, which prompted the nurse to run another blood culture. Preliminary results are showing dad has a gram positive blood stream infection (the only specificity we have now is that it's an alpha class streptococcus). They put him on vancomycin, a serious bug killer. I've put a call into the doctor to ask why such a harsh antibiotic, I believe they put dad on vanco before they even knew which type of bacteria dad has. We'll see, at least the temperature is dancing around the 100-mark now. He's been fairly light hearted this morning, being the champ that he's been this whole time.

They suspect the infection could be coming from his central line, so a doctor will likely be taking it out today.