Parkar

Well we are still hanging out at the hospital . Parkar has been doing really well sleeping and being stuck in the hospital for the last 3 days!! It has been kind of confusing and frustrating as we have seen a new resident everyday we have been here and never seen a "real doctor" until this morning. We have been going to the ENT clinic which is here in the hospital on the second floor everyday to get his ear sucked out - which Parkar really does not like at all!! Yesterday when we went to the clinic they had is cultures back which showed the 3 most common bacterias found in middle ear infections. The resident acted like since it was a common bacteria and not resistant to anything that we would most likely be able to transition him to oral antibiotics today and possible discharge home as well. We were happy but at the same time a little upset because if they were just going to continue putting him on oral antibiotics than why did we come to Denver in the first place??? She said she would have to consult with the attending doctor and see what the plan would be for sure though. So we went back to Parkar's room as it was time for his scheduled antibiotic. The nurse tried to flush his IV before she started and couldn't get anything to go through so she tore down the dressing around the IV and found that it was bent - she tried to straighten it and push it in a little but couldn't get it to work. We asked the nurse if she could call the doctor to see if we could just start the oral antibiotics then so they wouldn't have to start another IV. She called and said the resident would have to consult with the doctor and when she found something out she would let us know. Teylor and I left to go Cameron's brother's house around 7- it was 11 before Cameron found out that they were not going to be doing anything until the doctor came in this morning. So this morning Dr. Chan came in and said that we had three plans: 1) Parkar could just get a regular IV and stay in hospital another 7-10 days on IV antibiotics, 2) He could get a picc line and we would be able to go home and he would have home health come and administer his antibiotics for the 7-10 days, 3) They could do another surgery and replace the tubes - the only down slide is we would have to wait until Monday as there is no PICC line nurses here on the weekends and the surgery he said would have to be done by his doctor Dr. Allen which he doesn't come back until Monday as well. He said his recommendation would be to do the picc line for one reason that wouldn't have to pay for a 15 day hospital stay and it may be more beneficial,(which we would have to agree although the picc line is not going to be fun for Parkar what so ever) and to do the surgery again since there might be bacteria holding onto the tube. He said that if they do the surgery they would most likely put the picc line in during surgery so he would put out although the nurse said they do do a local for it anyway. We are a little confused because all the residents have been acting like we would be able to just do the few days of antibiotics and then go home but the way doctor Chan explained everything he said given Parkar's history he would not take any chances and do everything they can do now. They had to put in another IV (after 3 needle pokes they got one) in in the mean time so he could be on the antibiotics from now until Monday. So we continue to just wait and hope we can get a definite plan on what is going to happen and have a little bit of consistencies in every one's story's - we can only hope!! That's it for now and off to nap time we go!!