by Debbie Summers<\/p>\n
I am working on this in a corner of Ken’s ICU room with a mask on while Ken gets yet another PICC (intravenous line that goes from his upper arm directly into his heart) placed in preparation for him going home to have antibiotics. \u00a0He will also ‘get’ to have a CT scan, another EKG and echocardiogram yet today. \u00a0Another kind of antibiotic is being given now. \u00a0The main focus is to try to figure out why Ken keeps getting a Pseudomonas infection. \u00a0This one was not only in his urine but also in his blood. \u00a0The infectious disease doctor thinks it might be in the interstitial lining of his bladder since the last CT scan done in December didn’t show any stones. \u00a0The hearts tests done yesterday show abnormalities as a result of the infectious process. \u00a0That is why they are repeating the tests so we know if things have resolved. Ken should be taking the caring bridge and kensummers.org over soon and believe me, it’ll be good reading since his perspective is very insightful (and funny at the same time).<\/p>\n
Prayer Requests:<\/strong> Psalm118:17 \u00a0I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the Lord has done<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday, February 24, 2014 by Debbie Summers I am working on this in a corner of Ken’s ICU room with a mask on while Ken gets yet another PICC (intravenous line that goes from his upper arm directly into his heart) placed in preparation for him going home to have antibiotics. \u00a0He will also ‘get’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*find the source of the infection and for it to never returrn
\n*encouragement for Ken that he not lose strength in his rehab process
\n*safety for Ken since he is still considered a ‘fall risk’ (he is quite
\nadventurous)<\/p>\n