Lates update on Eddie

[Laura's Babies]

I have been super worried about Eddie for months. He keeps infections and as you know, infections are a burn victems worst fear. He has had a really nasty one MRSA that has been in his blood stream and I was really scared of that one. Tests have been done on everyone that has come in contact with him to see who possiably carried it into him and he has had it treated and now, all he has is a few more days of treatement left to do and will be done with that.

I have worried about how all these infections and treatments for them have made him feel as he has not been wanting to do his physical therapy like he needs. The nursing care on the floor has been of a lot lower standard than he got in Burn Trama to the point that they left him sitting in a chair for 60 hours at a time ONCE... I say ONCE, because that will NOT happen again or else!

NOw, he is apparently infection FREE and he is feeling so much better that he is..

His wife wrote on our web sight...

Eddie has been a busy beaver lately. He's taken to cleaning his room. By cleaning that means dragging everything out then rearranging it and putting it somewhere that no one can find it. Drives the nurses nuts, I just sit and knit and let him at it. Looks a lot tidier though. He's been throwing things away right and left. He's been doing tons of walking and I think that it really gives him energy. Still no word on any future surgery. I'm beginning to wonder if they're just letting him heal on his own.

What a differance this is in him! This is our old Eddie coming back to us. Regina told me on the phone yesterday that ODSU is leaving him unwrapped now and she was blown away at what they had been keeping wrapped.. There are very few and pretty small places that are well onto healing left on him. These are the places she wonders if they are letting heal on their own.. LETS HOPE SO!

All this news has me doing the Happy Dance and I have renewed hope, possiably this could be the beginning of the end!? It is going on 9-10 months since that panel box exploded on him, setting him on fire on May 4th, 2005. He has come a LONG way since that day, still has a long way to go but having all the wounds healed up is a major event! I am so thrilled!!!

NOTE: todays update further down and it is exciting news too!

[Corinna]

so glad to hear once they get past the pity stage it's all easier . sounds like hes getting to I will live and I'm taking charge stage. Thats the best . Just letting him tdo the cleaning is the best . CONGRATS

[AbbyMom]

NOw, he is apparently infection FREE and he is feeling so much better that he is..

This is the best news...that infection is so nasty and burn victims cannot recover until that infection is cured.

And I think "driving the nurses nuts" is a really really healthy sign.

[poofy]

Im so happy to hear Eddie is doing good and infection free. .how thrilling for him and his family..your all in my prayers..What kind of panel blew up???

[caseysmom]

He has been through so much, I am glad things are looking up.

[Laura's Babies]

poofy, it was an electricl panal box that he was working on that blew up.. I thought he was the safest of my kids being an electrician, I had no idea those boxes could explode!