Infectious Disease – Dr. Chacko

 Get a call from Dr. Brady, his line swab is positive for staph.  She wants us to see Dr. Chacko.  Only problem is Dr. Chacko only sees patients on Wednesday’s.  It is 2:00pm when I get the call.  I don’t want to wait a full week to see her.  I wrap up at work, race home to get Zachary and we are at Dr. Chacko’s office by 4:00. 

She tells us that we all have to wash with a special soap to lighten the amount of staph on our skin.  (Did you know that everyone has Staph at all times on their skin?)  She also says the dreaded word ANTIBIOTICS.  She can see the fear in my eyes when I beg her to give us 8 hour antibiotics instead of 6 hour antibiotics.  I then snap to my senses and say, whatever is best for Zachary we will do.  Luckily she suggests an IV push every 8 hour antibiotic.  I cannot even begin to explain how happy that makes me.  No more getting up every 6 hours to run a pump for 1 hour.  We now start on a 14 day, 6 am, 2 pm and 10 pm antibiotic.  This antibiotic does not have a separate pump; we just push it over 3 minutes!