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The MRSA pneumonia was not a flesh eating bacteria. It was a very tenacious infection. It required vancomycin IV every 12 hours for 5 weeks to beat it. Concurrently, I had an abscess between my stomach and liver (likely caused by one of the drains) that required cephalosporin IV push every 8 hours (competing with the vancomycin for access to my PICC line). The pneumonia and abscess resolved in early November 2024. I was also surviving on a feeding tube inserted from my nose to jejunum to push 1800 calories a day into my gut because I couldn't keep any food down. It was a rough Summer.

It sounds like your experience was similar in the need for an NG tube that turned into a projectile vomit. I dumped 350 ml of puke for my care team during morning rounds. Not intentionally, just a luck of the draw on that. Treatment for cancer is often not a nice experience. Hoping that you are back on a better path. The stent placed in my stomach last December has really helped getting food through in a more normal fashion.

Take care. We will get through this.