A relatively short hospital stay

Because this blog is my place to vent when I'm worried and/or frustrated about the ups and downs in Scott's health I have a new post. Last week Scott ended up in the hospital for 3 days. It's been well over a year since he's stayed overnight in the hospital. It's pretty good that he went so long. It's also good that this stay was relatively easy and he felt pretty good.

For the past many months Scott has been suffering with some difficult symptoms that have caused weight loss and a general feeling of BLAH. He was recently diagnosed with Colitis which seems to be the cause of these symptoms. I understand that there are many causes of Colitis and we don't know for sure which one is causing Scott's. Quite a few causes have been ruled out so the docs think it is medicine-induced. The problem is he takes so many meds and some are absolutely essential to keeping his heart from rejection. We don't know what they'll do about it yet. We're waiting for an appointment with a specialist in a few weeks.

That brings me back to the hospital stay. Scott has been feeling generally poorly for awhile. He's cold most of the time(he has no insulation), and he could sleep anytime(he sometimes does). Last week he came home from a day of work and started shivering and he felt awful. I took his temperature and he had a significant fever. When Scott has a fever and no symptoms of cold or flu we assume he has an infection and to the ER we go.

He had the shortest, most efficient ER experience to date and was admitted to the hospital in a few hours. After IV fluids and IV antibiotics he started feeling better very quickly. He had to stay for 3 days to complete the course of IV antibiotics. They never found what the infection was but he feels better so that's enough for me.

I am actually very happy with how this turned out this time. It's not nearly as hard to leave Scott at the hospital when he feels pretty good and can take care of himself. It was much harder the other times. I sure am glad he's home now though!!!

I keep hoping that a time comes when Scott is energetic, feeling great and back to all normal activities. Although he's not there yet he really has come a long way! Every day I'm grateful to still have him here.