SIL and DD went on vacation about a month ago. Went to Biloxi, MS, New Orleans and on to Tampa Bay to vs. inlaws. They came home on a Tuesday night, and he c/o sore throat. Got progressively more ill. I listened to his lungs on Friday and told him to go to the dr. He did and was hospitalized overnight with pneumonia in RLL. Gave him IV Rocephin and Zithromax in hospital. D/C'd on po Levaquin. Stayed home from work two weekends in a row.
This past weekend was to be his first back. Ran out of ABT on Tues or Wed, starting c/o feeling bad again, but thought might be allergies on account of crazy weather, season change, etc. Went to work Sat, worked 12 hours (in a walmart warehouse, dusty, warm, not real good for someone getting over a resp. illness). That night ran fever of 102. Got up, went to work Sunday, made it four hours, DD had to take him home. Ran fever high 102's all day and night. Fever Broke, but would come back.
Went to doc yesterday, sent for CXR and labs. Called him as soon as he got home and told him to go check back into hospital.
I asked him what his white count was, he said they told him it was normal, and was the last time he was in. They are xraying him for lungs, gb and liver today, CT scan actually.
My question is do you think he could have picked up some funky disease in New Orleans or Florida that little country docs in BFE Inidiana have no clue about and needs to go somewhere to a place where the docs might have a higher knowledge base?
He has fever, cough, pain on rt side and back.
Just wonder if I'm just being a paranoid, meddling MIL or if anyone besides me thinks this is a possibility.