It was early in the evening on Monday when the doctor pulled the tube out of my back. It was now about 10 days since I was discharged from the hospital. The tube draining my liver abscess was gone and the extreme muscle spasms caused by the tube were fading quickly. I was still on "round the clock" IV antibiotics, but that seemed simple compared to the muscle spasms and the drain bag I had been carrying around for the past few weeks.
Tuesday came, and the muscle spasms were completely gone. Unfortunately, I had some pulled muscles in my ribcage from the previous muscle spasms that were still quite sore, but nothing that was like the spasms themselves.
About midday on Tuesday, I started to run a fever. To be fair, I had been running a slight fever for weeks with my temps staying in the 96.6 to 99.6 range. But this was different, these temps started to spike above 100 and were not coming down very easily. In addition, I was really feeling this fever, I was weak, dizzy and body achy. I thought at first that the fever spike might be from the pulling of the drain tube and any "liquid" that might have spilled into my body. But after a couple of days of this new fever spike, I started to become concerned.
On Thursday, Sara contacted my doctor (Doc B) to see what we should do, and she told us to go directly to the hospital. This was two weeks to the day after I had been discharged. Just when things seemed to be going so well...
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