Zenith's brain fog and disorientation is much improved, however she has been getting weaker as she has no appetite. Her Antibiotic is IV acyclovir 3X a day. Her side effects have been diarrhea, fatigue, weakness, headache, dizziness, there may be others, but those are my layman's observations.
Since at least November 13th until now the 23rd she has eaten very little. Her initial Illness started on the 10th, but I'm not sure how much she may or may not have eaten from the 10th to 13th. She was admitted to the hospital, diagnosed and treatment started on the 15th. I'm not sure if her lack of appetite is caused by the encephalitis, Antibiotics or both.
I'm concerned about her getting weaker and am trying to encourage her to eat, even a bite or two. I got her to eat a few grapes each day and a bite of banana. Her Filipino friends and family brought her some Filipino food and she ate a bite or two. She doesn't like American food.A few days ago they moved her to a nursing home, and what a shithole of a downgrade compared to the hospital.
Today I had a bit of an argument with one of her coworkers who came to visit her. I just can't deal with the whole we will just pray attitude. David didn't just pray he took action, same with Solomon, Moses, Jesus, and many others from the bible...
In the Philippines the family structure seems to often be a Matriarchy, where a senior female is the head of the family, and the boys are raised up to be irresponsible, while the girls are raised up to be ultra-responsible. As one expat put it, the boys are the girls and the girls are the boys.
Alpha Females with Beta males, I think it's related to Catholic grooming of boys since it seems common in Central and South American culture.
NUrsing home Dr are the dregs, she doesn't like him either. IMHO medical is the greabiggest scam of all.
You're right. I had bloodwork done last year in December. Then I went to see my doctor again in March of this year. Then I saw her again in June only to hear her say, "Oh, your bloodwork in December showed you are borderline diabetic." Then I started almost yelling but asking, "Why didn't you call me, email me or even mail me the results? Why did you not tell me during my March visit?" She had no answer to any of these questions.
Contrast with my experience in the Philippines...
In 2020 I went to an internal Med. Dr. In the Philippines, I had health issues I wanted checked out. She sent me to the newer hospital where she also had an office since the one I saw her at was already not doing many tests. I had 4 blood tests including Hep B & C along with a full lower abdomen sonogram. Two copies were given to me within an hour, one for me and one for me to take back to the Dr. My problems were Kidney stones, a gallstone, fatty liver, and a swollen prostate. She gave me 2 prescriptions.
A week or so later my chest pains that I'd not told her about cropped up and I couldn't get an appointment with a Cardiologist due to COVID panic. I went to the Emergency room instead. That Dr. Gave me an EKG, a blood test for kidney failure, and a a blood test to see if I was having a current heart attack. He also told me to get an echocardiogram which I did the next day, I asked for a full chest x-ray as I was an ex-smoker., and I had all his results and the echocardiogram results to take back to my internal med Dr. The Emergency Dr. Prescribed another med, but also Nitrogliscerene. I took the results to my Dr. the following day. The results were heart remodeling from untreated high BP
The total bill was a bit over 400 bucks, that's for 3 Dr. Visits, an Emergency room visit, 6 blood tests, an EKG, an Echocardiogram, a Chest X-ray, and a full lower ab sonogram. Also included a month's supply of the Meds and 10 Nitro pills. I was seen quickly for all appointments which were basically walk-in or the next day. The results were given to me on the same day or on the next day when I had the test at closing time.
The Caveat is that you pay in cash before the tests. They don't bill insurance, nor do they treat you and wait to be paid. I'm sure the bill for all of this would have been 10K and I'd have to wait for all the appointments with the Dr. and the various tests. Would have been weeks or more too. I wouldn't want the Dr. there to operate, but the diagnostics were fine. Since I had my own copy of the results, I looked up all of my health issues myself.
Here just knocking on the Dr. door the first time is more costly than all of this I had done. My Dr. only saw a few patients a day since most people can't afford medical care.
I hear you. I remember going to the dentist and having a wisdom tooth pulled out on an 'emergency' visit which costs extra. The price...$75. Today I wanted a tooth extracted and the price without it being an emergency was $350 for the extraction, extra for an x-ray and I had to have a first visit for the x-ray to see if they'd be willing to extract it in a week or two. SO I PULLED IT MYSELF. Cost....PRICELESS.
Good for you Mary911, I healed myself a few times and it always worked out better than these big business Drs.