A short update on Kim’s condition:
From: Bryn Chowchuvech
Kim has been in the hospital for nearly a week now. His overall condition has improved slightly and, aside from this morning, he hasn’t had a fever since he was first admitted. His breathing has also improved slightly. He’s still in rather poor condition, however. His breathing must still be facilitated by a high flow of oxygen and he is still extremely weak, sleeping for most of the day and having trouble summoning the energy to even sit up in bed to eat. The fever that reoccurred this morning likely came as a result of him being washed. The effort of leaving the warmth of his bed for 10 minutes and the shock of getting out of the shower was simply too much for him in his current condition.
The doctors have switched the antibiotics to see if others will be more effective. They still have not conclusively found the bacteria that are causing the pneumonia, so they’re using a sort of shotgun method with the antibiotics to try to cover every type of common, as well as some uncommon, pneumonia-causing bacteria. Because of the relatively poor efficacy of the previous antibiotics he was on, they think it might be a more uncommon strain that is causing Kim’s ailments. The good news is that he tested negative for TB.
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