Hi. I forwarded this to Lactnet.  Please tell your mother that I wish her
the VERY best in healing, and that if there is anything we can do, please
let us know.

Hugs to Marie. Kathleen

At 10:19 AM 9/17/97 -0400, you wrote:
>This is Rachel Davis mom asked that I send this to you until she is able to
>write you herself. I didn't know if you want to post this to Lactnet.
>After months of telling the doctor that she was still ill (she had massive
>sepsis in May), mom asked another doctor to run some tests. Unfortunately she
>was right--she is still sick, very sick.
>Mom spent the weekend in the hospital once again. She has sepsis (Bacteria in
>the blood) again. They have not identified the bacteria. It is some type of
>gram negative rods, a different infection from what she had in May. This is
>really bad news for all of us.
>Mom is home on IV antidiotics but going back and forth to the hospital for
>further testing. Our biggest worry is that the bacteria is lodged in the
>bone. If so that means they will have to remove the artificial parts for one
>year. We're not going to think about that for right now. We just want her to
>get better.
>Rachel
>
>
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