Update on Mom

Mom's surgery went pretty well, but it was a rough weekend. She came home Friday despite having some trouble getting up on Thursday. She seemed to be doing really well until Saturday in the late afternoon. Suddenly dizziness and fever. Followed by hours and hours in the emergency room. At 2 AM they finally found her a room, treating her with potasium and IV antibiotics.

After a day or so of antibiotics and poking and proding they sent her home on Monday. Jim and Mary were back in town so I came home to Cleveland. Unfortunately, she's been struggling with nausea and bouts of fever. The assumption has been that she's been fighting a post-surgical infection and stomache upset from all of the drugs (and lack of her usual diabetes medication). However, it turned out that she's been suffering from something far more mundane: the flu.

About the time she returned to the hospital, many in the ER and patient floor nursing staff were coming down with it.