Update on my cousin who was critically ill

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Some of you may remember my post about my cousin who was in the hospital for four weeks with the flue, MRSA pneumonia, and then surgery to remove part of his large intestines. He came home last week and was recovering as well as he could. I took him to his doctor's office yesterday to have some blood work done, (his 11 year old son went with us), we started home, picked up some lunch at Hardee's and were about 25 miles from the doctor when my cousin got a phone call telling us to turn around and go immediately to the ER. They saw a small spot on the xray of his lungs that might be more pneumonia. Well, we of course went right to the ER. Got there about 1:00 and at 7pm, he still hadn't seen a doctor. They finally got him to a bed. What I was the most concerned about was the red, painful welts he was developing on both legs. After a CT scan of his lungs, the doctors said they didn't see any pneumonia and the welts are probably coming from the Rheumatoid Arthritis he has. When he became to seriously ill, they took him off his RA meds while he was in the hospital, but now that's caused the RA to flare up even worse. Poor fella. But I'm thankful he's home (came home about 5am this morning!) and hopefully the doctor can find another RA medicine that he can take. Thank you again so much for all your prayers and concern.