After being home 11 days/nights, I have lost 12 lbs which is averaging to a little over a lb/day and I have no idea is that is a good or bad weight loss situation. I am only drinking about 1/2 the water I should be drinking and I am eating about 500 calories less each that than I was before, so the weight loss must be coming from my nightly sweating or from my urination or both.
Tomorrow, I see the Infectious Disease Doctor as a follow-up for me leaving the hospital and this is going to be one of my questions along with the the constant BLAH feeling that I have each day. White fatigue is also a concern, it is not daily experienced however, I have more fatigue days than I do not, so I would like to know why, especially since my Home Health Nurse said it was attributed to the IV Antibiotics that I have been taking 3 times a day.
What is clear to me... that when one has a STAPH infection in the bloodstream... and spends 6 days in the hospital that is takes 3 times that amount of time that one spent in the hospital to get better. So, if this were to happen to you, you might as well figure 4-6 weeks, perhaps 2 months to get out from under the impact to one's body... especially, if you are over 60 and more so if you are over 70 or 80.
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