Not such a hott weekend

Well this weekend was nothing like we had planned for. My Mom went to the ER Friday morning because she was vomiting, had lower back pain, fever of 102, bad headache, bright red face and hands, basically just miserable. At first they thought she had meningitis so they wanted to immediately do a spinal tap and made her and my Dad wear masks. I thought that was a little extreme but they got some lab work back before they did the spinal tap and realized it wasn't meningitis, they diagnosed her with a severe kidney infection. So the ER doc told her he would give her some antibiotics and send her home. Well after 3 hours and her symptoms were getting worse, they realized they were wrong and that she needed immediate help. So they sent her to a room on the floor where she just got worse. Her pulse was 130 all day Friday and her standing BP was 80/50 and the nurses were understandably very concerned. So finally about 7pm Friday, she was sent to the ICU. They called in an infectious disease Doctor who came in and within 10 minutes diagnosed her with Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS). They sent out some lab work that will take about a week to come back and that will help them know exactly how she got TSS. They were pumping her full of fluids because she was so dehydrated and giving her so many antibiotics that she began to swell and fluid was going into her lungs. So she has gotten no sleep in 3 days now and is pretty miserable. All of her veins are collapsing so they are going to put a picc line in tomorrow (they don't do them on weekends). She has been in ICU since Friday night and she is just now sitting up and having somewhat of an appetite. They think she will be in ICU again tonight and hopefully get in a room on the floor tomorrow. So hopefully in a few days she'll be well enough to come home. They have limited her visitors mostly because she doesn't feel like company and just has so much going on right now, she just wants to see family. So we are all tired and praying for her to feel better soon. I hate leaving her by herself in ICU but she needed some rest so we came home for a few hours. I'll post another update later.