8/13: Another Quickie at the ER

The home health nurse had 2 objectives today: draw blood and change the Huber Needle. Unfortunately only the blood draw objective was met. When she took out the old Huber Needle she noticed some sort of abscess near Leo's port. I called the Burzynski Clinic and spoke with Dr. Szymkowski, who suggested we have it checked-out either by Leo's pediatrician, who left for a 2 week vacation, or the ER. So Marina took Leo to the Lutheran General ER. Fortunately it wasn't anything terribly serious (or maybe we're getting used to ER visits), but again Leo was given cephalexin, the antibiotic. The dressing over the needle needs to be changed daily for a while and to use an antibiotic cream just in case. So the home health nurse will come each day for about a week to take care of this. A new Huber Needle was placed and they were home in just a couple of hours and back on antineoplastons. Most of the above happened during my first day back at work, so the late afternoon was a very nervous one.