****WCGreen Update --Saturday May 31, 2014****

[Warpy]

18. Shit.

Still, I think the best thing now is that he's happy and laughing with his friends. I've seen very sick people start to turn around with just that. Or not. I wasn't a stuffy nurse, I just closed the door and let them be loud.

There are a few drugs that will knock vancomycin resistant infection down until a patient's immune system mops it up but they're hard to get and have quite a few nasty side effects, especially in really sick patients with prolonged recovery periods. They are classified as "reserve antibiotics" and drug stores don't stock them for good reason.

It will be up to him to risk things like C. dificile and overwhelming yeast infection to beat this thing. In the meantime, the more you can get him to laugh, the better, although the nurses will get pissy because it makes the ventilator alarm constantly.

If he's had enough, there are worse ways to go than among friends and laughing with them.