My beautiful dad come home to us last Tuesday after 12 weeks in hospital, on Wednesday mum cared for dad during the day while I was at work,when I got home from work dad was very unwell, high temp, laboured breathing, I called the CNC & he suggested we take him to the ED at JHH, we arrived at 8pm, they were amazing, on arrival dads temp was 39,pulse 178,oxygen level 80%,started dad on antibiotics, done all tests. Dads stomach peg was infected so at 1st they thought that was the problem,after xrays they discovered dad had pneumonia. Dad went into ICU at 3am Thursday morning.The Dr told us it was called aspiration pneumonia caused from dad being fed thru the peg & occasionally this causes reflux & this can deposit small amounts of food in dads lungs. Dad was moved from ICU into the High Dependency Unit yesterday, Im concerned that each day dads temp isv still very high, I keep asking why his temp hasn't gone down & nobody gives me an answer. If anybody has been thru this can you please give me some info, Im at my wits end & don't know what to do !!!
