Monday at the hospital

The fever is mostly down and the leg is less hot, but apparently we can expect it to look huge and scary for another week, maybe longer. This is a bad case of cellulitis. We don't have a clear sense of how long Steve will need to stay--my guess is at least through Friday.

This afternoon he had an episode of shortness of breath which caused a flurry of activity: the breath SWAT team descended on his room, fearing clots in the lungs. Luckily, there are no clots in his lungs, just a little fluid. That should be gone by mid-day Tuesday compliments of Lasix (a water pill).

Protocol for the leg is for the nurse to take a Sharpie pen and draw a line around the edges of the inflammation. When the redness pulls back from the line, we'll know Steve's healing.