[ZinGirl]

Christina was discharged from hospital and is back at her residence in St. Kilda! I was getting texts of her progress and discharge from her throughout the night, but wasn't really paying attention to the time as to when she was finally back. She texted at 5:15am (our time) that she was in her kitchen making chicken soup.

We just had a nice hour or so on Skype with her and she really looks great, especially considering her ordeal! we got a lot of stories from her about her experience.

Some of it seems like a dream, she says, because she was in and out of either consciousness or sleep often in the beginning.

The best part was they were all over her disorder in terms of what it was and what to do. All over it. So relieved!

She tells a great story....so she had us laughing often about her thoughts of the doctors, nurses, methods of doing things, difference in culture...even though it is so similar to the US, it is SO different. :) Overall, she deemed her actual medical care as top-notch.

Classes start tomorrow and she is excited for that....but promises that she will be taking it easy.

She has no idea what any diagnosis was...but she was prevented from leaving until they got her an Rx for the antibiotics they said she needed because, "your last bloodwork shows you still need the antibiotics". She has no idea what that meant. In all fairness to staff...she also didn't ask any questions. Partly, in the beginning, because she was so sick. She was aware that they were concerned about her blood pressure...but doesn't really remember any numbers. Except 61. She said, "is 61 a bad number?" We said, well, no...not if it's the bottom number. She said, "yeah...well...it was the top number...is that bad?" so, THAT is pretty low. Man, I hope that was one of her pseudo-alertness times...but I don't think she would remember them being so concerned if it was diastolic. *sigh*

SO glad I didn't know all these things until I can see her pretty, happy face. :)

She is so thankful for everyone's prayers and thoughts...truly. She said she was oddly OK with being so far away because she kept thinking of all the people who were taking such good care of her. I told her about this thread and all she could say was, "awwwwwww.....that is so sweet". She was so touched. I sent her the thread. :)

She hated being in the ER until they got her in a room...but once she was there, it was quiet, she had a window..and she remembers thinking, "I'm going to be fine....it's not horrible anymore".

This was the worst, weirdest sickness she has ever felt. Her head hurt so badly she was seeing double. She kept phasing out, mentally. She was uncontrollably shaking and chilled (fever), but then also started vomiting in the ER. (glad I didn't know THAT either. :) This was also the first time she had both arms hooked up to several bags between fluids, normal meds, and antibiotics.

Whatever it was, she says she feels great now...still a bit nauseous but that is prob from the antibiotics.

This will be my last update. I want to thank everyone again for staying with us and standing in prayer. Please know what a difference it made to Christina and to us...and to my being able to handle this without becoming unglued entirely (was getting close yesterday afternoon when I hadn't heard anything!). Much love and thanks to all FReepers, Kare

[punknpuss]

Thank you for the update. God is good and He is with us wherever we go. I’m so glad that your dear daughter is out of danger and at home having some chicken soup. And you got to see her as well — how wonderful is our modern technology! Take care and have a beautiful rest of the weekend.

[metmom]

I don’t know if she has access to probiotics there in Australia. I’m guessing she should.

She should find some good strong ones with lots of different flora and take them a couple times a day for a few weeks during and after finishing her course of treatment.

Once the antibiotics kill off all the bacteria in her system, what gets there first will become established. Better that it’s the good stuff, the probiotics, than another infection of some kind.

I had MRSA almost 2 years ago and was on some incredibly strong antibiotics and did lots of the probiotics afterwards and never had any other problems with secondary infections later.

[CaptainK]

I just read your message. Great news for a Sunday afternoon.

[liberalh8ter]

Thanks for the update and great news it is :-) It sounds as though she got better care there than she would have, here!

[Jane Long]

Great news! Thanks for the update and thankful to Him for answered prayers.

Ditto what metmom said about the probiotics....very good advice.

[mountainbunny]

Praise God! We are continuing to pray & hope that she’s 100% better very soon.

[Constitution Day]

I am very happy to read this good news! God is good!