Hoping and Praying

O.K After yet another trip into hospital my mother is back at home and the doctors know think they know what is causing this recurrent infection.

The general consensus of opinion is that when they put the stents in to help out her kidneys she still had the tale end of a kidney infections.  This infection managed to track into the stents where the antibiotics couldn't reach it.  It is now sitting in the stents and when it has built up enough numbers it is invading either her kidneys or her bladder or sometimes both.  That results in these unplanned trips into hospital but the problem is all the antibiotics in the world cannot reach the inside of the stents because the stents are non organic material.  This means that alone the antibiotics cannot permanently destroy the infection.

Therefore the plan of action is that she will be on massive high dose antibiotics for two weeks, she will then go into hospital and they will remove the old stents, flush her system with an antibiotic wash and put new sterile stents in.

Now we are just hoping and praying that they have it right and that this will work.  If it does then I'm about ready to fall on my face and polish their shoes with my nose.  I think the relief will have me crying for a week.  So here's to hoping.