My Neice/Iraqi veteran/Histoplasmosis

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OK- How's this for a bad scenario:

26 YO female completes an 18 mo tour in Iraq (secret mission) - goes

on a month vacation around the world..... comes home to central

Indianna and within a month is down with Crohns - after multiple

hospital stays and a section of intestine out - is OK for only about

a year when she contacts a really bad case of systemic fungla

infection ( from being on REMICADE AND IMURAN and living in an

endemic area for Histo).

Now's she's in a VA hospital for over a week with a fever anywhere

from 102 to 106 - and rally not getting any better (she's on IV ant-

fungals - but I don't know what drugs) but she hasn't gotten worse

(like dead).

News from her mom is she's off all immunosuppressive drugs and crohns

is quiet -

Damn- she got to the stage where she had nodules full of fungus on

her body - AND couldn't breath (with extreme fatigue) before they

figured it out.

I've heard the VA is pretty bad- I try not to sterotype- but I see a

couple of areas of in conpentance here (like prescribing Remicade in

the first place).

I'll fins out what drugs she's on- although parents aren't tuned into

the technical end of things the way we are.

Barb

PS- I always though she contracted something somewhere in the world

the way crohns came on so fast (and bad) with her... no one agreed

though.