{"id":469,"date":"2011-05-15T22:41:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2011-05-15T23:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T04:00:22","slug":"another-weekend-in-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/15\/another-weekend-in-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Another weekend… stuck in the room"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest round of tests (four or five now?) are still coming back negative for Acinetobacter baumannii<\/em>.\u00a0 But wait!\u00a0 There’s now talk of a new bug cropping up in the results, though:\u00a0 Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/em>.\u00a0 Gah, you can’t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n

Chris looks good this weekend, though – he’s alert, and he generally just seems more “with it” than he did a few weeks ago.\u00a0 Not sure how to describe it.<\/p>\n

Chris’s stomach still isn’t digesting food properly, taking much longer than it has in the past to process food.\u00a0 I think this is still wholly related to being in isolation without the full PT\/OT regimen that he’d receive in the therapy gym.<\/p>\n

My dad is still looking around for a doctor to operate on his spine, another challenge we’re dealing with at the moment.\u00a0 There are a number of techniques available from different specialists…\u00a0 it’s a matter of narrowing down the choices at this point (evaluating the risk, recovery of function, etc.).\u00a0 I really hope he can sort something out this coming week, because we need him back on the “team”.<\/p>\n

HealthSouth RIOSA repaired their guest wireless access, so we’re able to do stuff on the Intertubes in the room again, for the first time since the nursing home!\u00a0 Downloaded a “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” podcast, read him some Glenn Greenwald, watched a couple of YouTube videos, etc.:<\/p>\n