He's still on a vent...his blood cultures came back positive for bacteria (explaining his fever) so they're keeping him on it for atleast another day.
John arrived to the hospital early yesterday afternoon. He was pleasantly surprised at how good Jorge looked. His colour was good and he was breathing at 18-22 with the vent only providing 10 of those breaths. He was moving around in his bed, and he had opened his eyes upon demand from the nurse. John was impressed with the character of Jorge's nurse, Laurie, who I had spoken with on the phone. He said she reminded him of me. :-)
I went to work, hoping to keep myself busy and I was rewarded with such a crazy day! We took one patient to the Emergency Room and then the dreaded white powder envelope was delivered to the Embassy. Other South American U.S. Embassies have already received one so we were well prepared. So far they've only contained baby powder or flour but it's necessary to treat it like it's Anthrax. So the contaminated people from our mail room area were hosed down and sent to us for a check-up and antibiotic treatment. Did I mention that our Health Unit schedule had shown absolutely nothing for the entire day? It sure turned out busy! An answer to my prayers but my fellow workers told me to never ask for another busy day again! I promised I wouldn't!
Jake slept over at Manny's, the girls are hanging out in their "suite" on the top floor and I'm getting ready to go to work. Here's to a quiet day!!!
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Hang in there, baby. You're used to chaos in your life and wouldn't know what to do if everything was going smoothly.
My healing thoughts are with George.
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