If you visit Dad over the next couple of days, you will notice there are "isolation precautions" in place and you will see the nurses/staff wearing yellow gowns and face masks when they go in the room. We use the term "isolation precautions" to refer to the measures taken (i.e. gown, gloves, mask, etc) when a patient may have a potentially infectious illness.
But I would like to stress that absolutely nothing has changed with my Dad except for the physician team, which changes out on Sundays. Last week's team was very comfortable skipping any isolation measures since they are very assured of his diagnosis, which is not infectious. However this week's physician team came on shift today and basically said "well, we should put him on isolation precautions until we have all of the results back from the spinal fluid tests that confirms that nothing is infectious, just in case". But they even said it's 99.9% likely that all of that is really unnecessary, it's just a precaution, dotting i's and crossing t's. It's funny because even the Infectious Disease team that came to evaluate him said it was silly.
So all those results should be back in the next couple days, until then we'll just all have to be diligent with behaving and putting on the stuff that the nurses/staff ask us to. Probably just face masks, which they'll provide you with. Hopefully it won't be for long.
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