Joe-Pye-Weed
Last week I was in the hospital to receive my 4th of five iron iv infusions. There was a thin cotton curtain between my daughter and I and the next patient. I wasn’t listening to the conversation the patient was having with the ER doctor until the patient asked for a refill of antibiotics and the doctor refused. I knew this doctor. In fact, this doctor had initially refused me antibiotics back in November 2025 when my mom had recognized my symptoms as advanced lyme disease. It was only the hand of God that gave me those antibiotics when I suddenly thought to use the phrase- preventative course of antibiotics and the doctor suddenly changed his mind. Now I began listening to the conversation on the other side of the curtain. The doctor said he wanted the patient to go off the antibiotics. He said if there was still infection (and it was a physical infection that wasn’t healing) he said the patient would know in a day or two as the bad bacteria would multiply quickly and the sore ...
