Varisela Voster

Hello Family and Friends,

Sorry it has taken me so long to write but things have been frustrating. When we first got home Jennifer had C-Diff, the medicine she was on was hard on her stomach, she was sick for 10 days while taking it. On October 13th she started fainting again, for about 5 days, then they stopped some of her high blood pressure meds. The same day she started throwing up and had loose stools, this kept up for about 6 days. On Sunday the 16th her blood pressure was getting real high and the sores that she had on her shoulder were blistering up. Mary called the doctor and he said to bring her in the hospital to be admitted because it sounds like the shingles. They started her on antibiotics for them. She got out of the hospital on Wednesday afternoon and we headed for Houston for a few appointments for the next morning.

Dr Krance thought her sores weren’t shingles and he biopsy a spot and it end up being Varisela Voster (same family as the chicken pox and shingles). He had us stay one more day so he could run some more tests to find out what might be causing the stomach to be so upset. That same day she started fainting again. Still today she can’t be on her feet for more than 4 or 5 minutes without fainting, sometime with just taking a few steps.

This week we saw several different doctors, we go back to the Cardio doctor on Monday, hopefully he will find some answers on why she is fainting.

We also had to have her central line removed last Tuesday because it was clogged and was not drawing fluids. They put a new central line that same day.

Nurse Mary has to give Jennifer IV fluids and IV antibiotics every 8 hours around the clock for the Varisela Voster. We have to do this for 21 days and the last day is November 5 (we hope).

So, we have been busy and I will try to keep you updated more often.
Thanks
Tim

note: the above entry is a copy originally posted on our ‘Caring Bridge’ website.