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ladydoujiCame home from a crappy day at work to find an email from my mom
"Larry is in the hopsital- looks like he is going to have to have surgery-
which could be pretty serious- call tonight when you get home- I may have
more news"
I call and turns out my brother needs to have surgery to remove abcesses from his lungs. They don't know what time he's going in, just sometime in the afternoon. I asked if mom wanted me out there, but as there wasn't anything for me to do out there they said no. SO tomorrow i'm gonna be calling them on every break for updates and be ready to bug out if they say come.
Will some-one please remind it's not always a good thing to go googling info about medical problems I did and found this
Most patients with lung abscess will not need surgery. About 5% of patients--usually those who do not respond to antibiotics or are coughing up large amounts of blood (500 mL or more)--may have emergency surgery for removal of the diseased part of the lung or for insertion of a tube to drain the abscess. Antibiotic treatment is considered to have failed if fever and other symptoms continue after 10-14 days of treatment; if chest x rays indicate that the abscess is not shrinking; or if the patient has pneumonia that is spreading to other parts of the lung.
Eeep sounds really nasty. At least I learned that the surgery has a low mortality rate(10-15%) but still really really nasty.
"Larry is in the hopsital- looks like he is going to have to have surgery-
which could be pretty serious- call tonight when you get home- I may have
more news"
I call and turns out my brother needs to have surgery to remove abcesses from his lungs. They don't know what time he's going in, just sometime in the afternoon. I asked if mom wanted me out there, but as there wasn't anything for me to do out there they said no. SO tomorrow i'm gonna be calling them on every break for updates and be ready to bug out if they say come.
Will some-one please remind it's not always a good thing to go googling info about medical problems I did and found this
Most patients with lung abscess will not need surgery. About 5% of patients--usually those who do not respond to antibiotics or are coughing up large amounts of blood (500 mL or more)--may have emergency surgery for removal of the diseased part of the lung or for insertion of a tube to drain the abscess. Antibiotic treatment is considered to have failed if fever and other symptoms continue after 10-14 days of treatment; if chest x rays indicate that the abscess is not shrinking; or if the patient has pneumonia that is spreading to other parts of the lung.
Eeep sounds really nasty. At least I learned that the surgery has a low mortality rate(10-15%) but still really really nasty.
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