Dave's ER Visit

I haven't made a post all weekend because it's been crazy and Dave's been so sick.

Dave's been a pretty sick boy the past 2-3 months. He has been back and forth to the doctor with various ear infections, strep throat, and sinus infections. After many courses of antibiotics, he still never got better. His doctor determined he had the "Super Bacteria" that you can catch in hospitals, but is out in the general public now. They gave him a shot (I forget the name) of some powerful antibiotic and then he was on oral antibiotics (the strongest) for 10 days. He thought he was feeling better after that, but he was wrong.

Many of you know that Dave suffers for headaches and has for the past 10 years or so. We don't know if it's because of the bullet in his head, all the meth labs he's taken down in his life when he was undercover, or if it's heredity because Talbie and a lot of members of Dave's family have headaches. But since he's been sick, these headaches have become increasingly worse - to the point he wakes up in the middle of the night because of the pressure in his head. He has also had the flu a couple of times.

So, on Friday when his headache and symptoms were still there and he started in on the flu again, I decided it was time to take him to the hospital and we weren't leaving until we had some answers.

He's never had a CAT scan done before and that's been a concern because of the bullet. He can't EVER have a MRI because of the metal bullet, so that's something we have to be careful of.

Very long story short... in the hospital they did a CAT scan, Spinal Tap (to rule out meningitis), blood tests, urine tests, and ultra sounds. Everything came back looking OK.

The biggest concern is that his liver functions are 10 times what they should be and they are trying to find out why that is. They tested him for hepatitis but that came back OK.

They gave him more antibiotics and he has an appointment with his regular doctor today. It sounds like it is just a bad bug that has to run it's course. That's fine if everything else is ruled out and we don't have to worry about it. We'll know more today about the liver functions and what the doctor has to say about it all!

Hope you all had a great weekend :)