Thank you Beth for the updates and your info on your Mom. We were not familiar with
the term, "Acute Tubular Bronchial Injury", so we referred to our old but reliable 1988 Medical Book. What causes lung abcess? It says, "It is usually caused by blockage of a bronchial tube, with the development of infection beyond the point of obstruction." Then here is an encouragement, "Must lung abscess always be operated upon?" It says, "No, many clear up completely with antibiotics, especially if bronchial obstructions can be relieved or removed." So, Linda is getting antibiotics and hopefully, improving, that is getting rid of the infection. The Bronchial Injury we assume is something that was caused by the initial infection and not from the insertion of treatment tubes. Is this true? Now, tell us how her kidneys are doing? We don't have the latest phone numbers for Deana and Rashadd. Could some one give us their numbers? Love you all, Mom & Dad
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Grandpa the Acute tubular injury is in the kidney not the bronchial tube.
You are correct on the lung issues being caused by the initial lung infection/pneumonia. Her diagnosis has been sepsis which went into septic shock . They still don’t know the source of the infection. What they are attempting to determine is either the infection was caused by virus or Bactria. It sounds like all the testing has, for the most part ruled out bacteria, however because of the septic shock from sepsis the immediate treatment was antibiotics and incubation. This was because of the symptoms at the time she went into the emergency room. The antibiotics might have killed off the Bactria prior to blood testing since they didn’t begin the testing until after the antibiotics had been started on her IV drip. I hope this helps. Sounds like she will be in the hospital for many more days. I hope its days and not weeks but we just don’t know.
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