Overnight at the hospital

We got Grandma safely to Legacy House. She was settling in - and enjoying meeting friends and cousins. However, she just couldn't shake a bad case of diarrhea. Evidently, stool softener had been prescribed weeks ago, and they were still giving it to her twice a day - knowing she had diarrhea. ARGGG!!!

Yesterday morning, Legacy House did the test for C Diff (see below). She has it. They took her to the ER and put her on an IV and oral antibiotics. I'm not sure why Sunshine Terrace never did the test for it. JaNae said they mentioned tested for it a few times, but never did it. That seems very odd.

Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, is a bacterium that can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening inflammation of the colon.

Illness from C. difficile most commonly affects older adults in hospitals or in long-term care facilities and typically occurs after use of antibiotic medications. However, studies show increasing rates of C. difficile infection among people traditionally not considered high risk, such as younger and healthy individuals without a history of antibiotic use or exposure to health care facilities.