Bitter Harvest: a Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice
“But after the fatal fire, his condition declined again. Debora had always maintained that his illness was all in his mind, that he was overreacting to every little symptom; he hadn’t been really ill in the first place, not with anything anyone could diagnose. She was the one who had been under so much stress that she had actually vomited up blood, if only a minute amount.
In November, sensing something was wrong, Mike asked for an echocardiogram to see what was happening in his chest. The test ...showed he had a severely leaking mitral valve, caused by a bacterial infection of the heart. His physicians had feared this might happen. Once again Strep viridans showed up in his blood culture. Mike was hospitalized with endocarditis just before Thanksgiving, scheduled for surgery to insert a Groshong catheter into his subclavian vein so that he could receive intravenous antibiotics at home.
Two days before his surgery, Gary Dirks, the forensic chemist from the Johnson County Criminalistics Lab, received a vial of Mike’s blood from Gary Baker.MoreLess
In November, sensing something was wrong, Mike asked for an echocardiogram to see what was happening in his chest. The test ...showed he had a severely leaking mitral valve, caused by a bacterial infection of the heart. His physicians had feared this might happen. Once again Strep viridans showed up in his blood culture. Mike was hospitalized with endocarditis just before Thanksgiving, scheduled for surgery to insert a Groshong catheter into his subclavian vein so that he could receive intravenous antibiotics at home.
Two days before his surgery, Gary Dirks, the forensic chemist from the Johnson County Criminalistics Lab, received a vial of Mike’s blood from Gary Baker.MoreLess
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