Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Eye doctor visits
Dr Myers and Dr Shelly saw Mom Friday and Monday repectively. Dr. Myers went on vacation. No change in the eye since Friday, but Dr Shelly said it was no worse. Mom has conjunctivitis in the right eye but it is not on the cornea. Mom is now on new medication Vancomycin eye drops (since Friday) and now Bacitracin anitbiotic gel as of yesterday. Dr. Shelly said use up the Vanc. since we'll have to get another prescription for it anyway.(We had a mix up in how to use this drug, my fault for not instructing caregivers well enough. Shelly was fully appraised of situation and said go ahead with it.) Current careplan for eye is Vanc. every two hours, Bacit. 2x per day, am/pm (bedtime) (discontinue Genteal gel), Optive drops 4x per day (allow lapse time between Vanc and Optive drops so as not to have one wash out the other.) Follow up visit is Aug 7th (Tues) at 9:45 am with Shelly. I tried to get the appointment for my next weekday off, but neither doctor was available on that day. I went over plan with Pam and wrote down instructions and centralized all the eye meds (except for Vanc which has to be refridgerated) in a plastic bag marked "Eye care." The prescription for the next batch of Vanc is in this bag. It has to be specially mixed. On Friday Dr. Myers had a pharm. on Grove St. mix it.
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3 comments:
thanks for the update ... it means a lot to hear what is happening.
Vic - Sounds like you've been making a lot of doctor visits! Thanks.
My sched. includes weekdays off since I work a weekend a month. So I'm going to take her to her visits more to take it off Dan and Tom. These eye appointmts are intense, theres so many of them. Back to back visits and whatnot.
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