I hope he gets better!! Will be praying for your family as-well!!!
USA gives out antibiotics like candy, and wonder why they no longer work...
I am prone to bladder- and kidney infections, have been all my life due To an acquired bladder-defect. Everytime I get an infection, I don't get any antibiotics untill they've researched which antibiotic will kill whatever bug is in there.
Once my sample got contaminated and a simple bladder infection became a kidney infection. Try discussing your situation with a nurse with a fever of over 40•C...Since they had to
throw away the sample, and I was unable to provide another one (too sick), the hospital refused to prescribe me anything.
In the end I had to call my parents to come and get me....lots of pain and in hindsight I think I even had scepsis (blood-poisoning?). They arranged for me to get antibiotics
through their own housedoctor and from then on I got better. Unfortunately, my immune system had already gone in overdrive, starting to attack the nerve-endings in my fingers and toes. Very scary experience! Of course I filed a complaint with the hospital, they finally assigned me a urologist (instead of just trainees), but he's an .... Last time I saw him, he told me it was all right to wait till I got a fever before seeing my housedoctor for a bladder infection :facepalm Looking for a different urologist in a different hospital now... Mind you, that was a university hospital....you'd think they'd know better. And we've got the most expensive healthcare system in Europe...
