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So just an update, still no real definitive answer as to what's causing the extremely high Ferritin numbers, the Doctor put her on 500mg of Cipro 2 times daily, for 10 days, he wants to rule out infection. His belief is that Cipro is a well-tolerated fairly broad-spectrum antibiotic, and once that concludes we'll see where we are. So COVID kinda confounded the issue since it also messes with the Ferritin numbers, so right we're kinda in a wait & see mode until the COVID passes, fortunately her symptoms are mild, little cough, tiredness, and weakness, so just hoping we can get a negative test soon and that will be a relief, since we kinda went into it in a compromised state. The appetite stimulant appears to be working as she is eating and drinking better. We did move her over to the Skilled Nursing Unit since we were thinking she might need an I.V. if her fluids situation didin't change, so we're undergoing another situational transition due to a new setting, so she they gave her a couple low doses of Ativan initially to help smooth the transition. So more to come, she's still very weak and tired,

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Thank you for the update, @dave01 Your poor mum didn’t need to add Covid to the mix. It’ll be interesting to see if the Cipro has any effect on her symptoms. If you can get her some yogurt to have once a day between doses that might help her out with any intestinal side effects from the antibiotic.
It’s encouraging to hear she is improving with eating and drinking. I’m sure this is all so alarming for her to be in a strange environment and then having all this medical attention. It can be pretty jarring for someone in Memory Care. How are you holding up?

My husband Will came down with COVID and was so weak, he barely made it to the hospital and could not slide into his bed from the gurney without help. He could barely talk. He was in the hospital for 3 days and they gave him a daily shot of the vaccine intravenously. He recouperated very fast and was ready to come home after the 3rd day. Will had all the shots, including the last Booster and doctor said it was a different variant of the virus.