My fathers legionella, day by day

He is a normal, 72 years old man, smoked since his twenties. He is now retired from his work in a fish farm, spends his days fishing in the Sognefjord, Western Norway.

Date	Day	CRP	Comment
Nov 13	1	?	Came home from  Madeira, Funchal, Ajuda Star, feeling slightly bad, a flu? Muscle and joint pains. (Satelitepicture)
Nov 15	3	?	To the  municipal health centre in Gulen, Eivindvik. The physichan diagnosed it as a pneumonia. (Map)
Nov 16	4		My mother wanted him in hospital because he did neither eat nor drink. The physichan, however, claimed that a pneumonia could not end this fast. But if he does not drink, then she could call again.
Nov 17	5	?	Since drinking was important he started to drink water. My mother and my brother discussed him, they decided he was not any worse than yesterday.
Nov 18	6	465	Still high fever; 39.7, a little confused. My mother called the physichan 6:30 in the morning and insisted on hospitalization. The ambulance came and they made the 8 o'clock ferry… In the  hospital (map) my mother mentioned legionella, they had just been on vacation on Madeiara and she sadly was right.
Nov 19	7	?	He is put on mechanical ventilation in the first hours of the day.
Nov 20	8	360	Helicopter to Bergen, Haukeland Universitetssykehus. Bad blood pressure, he gained over 20 kg due to infusion to keep blood pressure up, kidney failure and lung failure. Straight into intensive care. One reason to move him to Bergen is the dialysis apparatus here.
Nov 21	9	290	Oscillatorhis lungs just barely works. Normal mechanical ventilation is not enough.
Nov 22	10	219	Reducing medication
Nov 23	11	175	Reducing medication
Nov 24	12	161	Reducing medication
Nov 25	13	105	No medication for blood pressure
Nov 26	14	70	Harder dialysis
Nov 27	15	41	Noradrenaline for blood pressure to increase, the dialysis is removing too much fluid from his vanes.
Nov 28	16	31	Ordinary mechanic ventilation
Nov 29	17	32	No painkillers, due to kidney failure the medication stays in the blood.
Nov 30	18	68	Rash on his back, opened his eyes a moment. Tracheotomy.
Dec 1	19	105	Mechanical ventilation in «servomode». Yeastinfection? Opened his eyes.
Dec 2	20	136	Pneumonia or rash on back causing high CRP? My brother thought he got contact. Turning his head, but not moving his arms.
Dec 3	21	158	Ordinary dialysis, good breathing moved to another intensive care unit; MIO.
Dec 4	22	117	Decreasing CRP, moved his toes.
Dec 5	23	119
Dec 6	24	105	Dialysing away 2 liters fluid in 3 hours. More awake, better blood pressure.
Dec7	25		More awake, stable blood pressure, CT.
Dec 8	26	34	Even more awake, breathing without the machine a while. CT showed a small haemorrhage in thalamus. EEG «optimistic», will soon come awake.
Dec9	27		The physiotherapist is optimistic.
Dec 10	28	15	Moving his lips, trying to talk.
Dec11	29		New mechanical ventilator, looking like an accordion.
Dec12	30	19	In wheelchair a while, but had to return to bed for dialysis.
Dec13	31	28	Stable blood pressure during dialysis.
Dec14	32	44	Moving his eyes faster.
Dec15	33-	29
Dec16	34	29	Moving his eyes even faster
Dec 17	35		A little worse today. The rash has caused him to replace all his skin, his hands are now like mine, soft like a baby (I'm a programmer ...)
Dec 18	36	21	Got youghurt through his mouth.
Dec 19	37	-	New room, youghurt, a little more alert.
Dec 20	38	-	MR.
Dec 21	39	-	MR-pictures blurred, he moved.
Dec 22	40	88	A lot of phlegm in his lungs, it is decided he shall return to Førde on Dec 28. A little better. The kidneys is starting to work again.
Dec 23	41	-	He has been rolled around the hospital area i a wheelchair.
Dec 24	42	-	"Ran away" from the  Rune Larsen concert in the hospital lobby, opened presents almost by himself.
Dec 25	43	-	Trying to talk, to communicate, but no air through the vocal cords due to the trachestomy. More awake than ever since he came to Bergen.
Dec 26	44	-	Moving his legs. A lot of phlegm is removed every day. Sometimes large coagulated bood lumps are sucked up.
Dec 27	45	-	A lot of visits (has been all the time), while I was there the nurse removed the air from the balloon cuff and blocking the tube to let him talk. After he said "yes" when the nurse asked him to, he said "It's enough now" when he chosed his own words.
Dec 28	46	-	To Førde, trachestomy removed when he arrived.