We better start at the very beginning: On December 21, 2011, Bill had complained of his lips feeling swollen and sinus pain on the left side of his face. I didn't see the swelling on his lips, so I just gave him sinus and pain medicine.
December 22, 2011 - Bill's left eye is swelling a bit, so we went to Dr. Christian's office. He still has sinus pain and so the doctor gave us meds for the sinuses. Bill also said that his cheek is numb along with his lips.
Monday, December 23rd - Up very early because Bill is in more pain than he can handle. We go to the emergency room. After a CAT scan it looks like his sinuses are dark and that there is an abscess by a tooth on the right side (the tooth was never the problem even though the ER doctor felt is was). Bill is given different meds for his sinuses and pain.
Saturday, December 24, 2011, Bill's eye is more swollen, along with his lips and almost all of the left side of his face is numb.
Christmas - Bill watches us open our Christmas gifts and opens some of his, but he is in a lot of pain and the sinus and pain meds don't seem to be working.
We can't get into see Dr. Christian until the 26th and as soon as he sees Bill, he refers us to Dr. Doxey and we walk right over to his office. As soon as Dr. Doxey sees Bill, he is sent to the hospital
While in the hospital all the symptoms seem to be an abscess on the tooth and sinus infections. The Infectious Disease doctor at the hospital says that the numbness on Bill's left side of his face is odd and not normal for sinus infections, so Dr. Doxey decided to do a sinus clean out, which is normal for a bad sinus infection on December 30th.
Dr. Doxey found that the tooth was not involved in the pain or swelling on Bill's face, it's a fungal infection and they feel that he needs to be in a hospital in Salt Lake. We were going to IHC in Murray. (refer to the first posts made on this site - then come back to January 4th for a more consistent reading of Bill's story)
January 4, 2012 - Bill is at the University of Utah hospital in the Neuro ICU. The doctors - Infectious Disease, ENT(Ear/Nose/Throat), Respiratory, and others are deciding what they need to do for Bill and they are trying to decide what kind of fungus it is. The main doctor is Jason P. Hunt and he spends half his time at the Huntsman Cancer hospital doing surgery on ear/nose/throat cancer patients. Bill will stay in ICU for just a few days.
