For the fourth time in five months, John has pneumonia. He's in the hospital and the doctors are concerned. I don't understand all the medical terms but the pneumonia is in both lungs, its viral but is staph(spelling on that) which confuses me - is that infection bacterial on top of the viral or is it a viral version of staph and if so, how do antibiotics help? Or are the antibiotics for the other symptoms? I'll ask again tomorrow when I see the doctor.
I met on a more intimate basis two of John's caretakers at his new home and I'm impressed. The house manager came to check on him and the caretaker watched him while I ran an errand. They are genuinely are interested in treating him as a family member, as the person he is and the person he can become.
He's sleeping now, relatively peacefully. He occasionally wakes and is very obnoxious which is a hint he's feeling better. But he's still so tired.
His lungs are chronically scarred. Each bout with pneumonia is another life threatening encounter. However, we are aware and we are watching, all of us. We're family.
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