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To: Sam who wrote (73236)	5/24/2018 6:03:41 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 358800

<<She is lucky she was in this country and in a good hospital when it happened.>> Oh, Sam-----you don't know how many times I've said that to myself. In fact, we're both wondering now, once again, whether we want to finish out our lives here in Arkansas. Our local hospital is a regional trauma center, and only a few years since it was built with all the bells and whistles, but still............. My daughter was at a similar type of hospital in Nyack, NY, but what is stuck in my mind is how absolutely smooth everything went there. It was so professional and so orderly. Everyone seemed so smart and so on top of her situation. I can't quite explain it and maybe the difference was simply that she was in a critical care wing, but I was so impressed by the care she got. There was a steady stream of nurses and technicians in and out of her room. All my questions were answered in detail and by anyone who happened to be in the room. She also was rather lucky, I think. An infectious disease specialist happened to be in the hospital when she was admitted through the ER. As you probably know, it takes a few days to culture a specific bacteria, but the infectious disease specialist, after talking with her, decided that it was likely her salmonella bacteria was actually the s.typhi bacteria and not the s.enteritis bacteria. The reason was that she wasn't experiencing the diarrhea that goes with salmonella poisoning. That and the fact that she had been to India. Even though typhoid fever is rare now, it most often originates in India. So he had them start on a specific antibiotic used with typhoid fever. They also got right on the sepsis possibility and started the first scans right in the ER. I'm guessing your mother had multiple organ scans done? At any rate, I'm not confident everything would have gone down that way here in Arkansas.