OP  "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 | Just a short update, Barry home yesterday, feeling fine but having to swallow two HUGE Augmentin tabs every day. Doc said that his pneumonia was improved in chest xray taken Wednesday but that it might be some weeks before complete resolution --
They thought this had been around for a while but kept "down" by the gatifloxacin he took for blood infection, and they further felt it might have started by aspirating food or fluid back when his throat was worse. Which is a problem, esp, if folks gargle with rinses containing numbing materials.
Well, have to go as we have to call Barry's mum in England, who is celebrating her 99th birthday today!
Best,
Gail
CG to husband Barry, dx. 7/21/05, age 66, SCC rgt. tonsil, BOT, 2 nodes (stg. IV), HPV+, tonsillectomy, 7x carboplatin, 35x tomoTherapy IMRT w/ Ethyol @ Johns Hopkins, thru treatment 9/28/05, HPV vaccine trial 12/06-present. Looking good!
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