Dr will not release me

Thank you all who commented on my problem

I live in Arizona age 72. I am in California at a major teaching hospital.

I have a team of doctors and I can't get any one of them to back up each others stories.

Last night one doctor said I had to wait an additional two weeks before going home. My other doctor told me if I had three days with no infection in blood they would put permanent pacemaker in.

Now the story is this. I had four days infection free blood until this morning when they found a culture growing in blood.

They say they are going to do a PICC line in morning Wednesday dec11 th

Then supposedly they will send me home with a pacemaker on my right chest wall Friday

In the meantime they are converting me over to Coumadin as I developed an allergy to heperan.

Still with me? After a six week infection drug usage at home I have to come back here to have permanent pacemaker installed.

I don't want to come back. I would rather my cardiologist find someone in my town to place the pacemaker

I am waiting for Thursday to come when they hit me with something else to keep me here

Thanks all

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Dr still will not release me

by Kaysmitt - 2013-12-11 12:12:34

Well drs came in and said can't go home with pm outside of chest. They have no way of checking it.

Can't put in PICC line as it could cause more infection in blood.

Seems I have a blood infection that can't be cleaned up.i am on two of the strongest antibiotics and they can't get three days of clean blood. This is going on the third week.

Has anyone else had this problem? I can't go home and I cant get a permanent pm until it is all cleared up.

I guess I will become a fixture here in sunny California

What you want

by Theknotguy - 2013-12-11 12:12:45

If possible call your cardio at home and see if he agrees with the local doctors. If he's OK with it, I'd go ahead and have it implanted.

Another question would be if the PM they implant is the same as what they would use at your home. I have a medtronics which is common in the area in which I live. So I have a lot of PM technical people nearby. That's comforting to know.

I had a similar situation where I was on one side of town unconscious and my cardiologist was on the other. By the time he would have gotten across town I would have been dead, so they went ahead with the implant, for which I'm grateful. I'm much happier being alive.

Since I was unconscious at the time I never got the angst about the the implantation. Woke up six days later with people going, "Surprise!" Also since I was unconscious I never went through the angst over the loss of control over my life either. So I'm alive and I have a PM. Like I said before, I'm much happier being alive.

Hope things go well for you.

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