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(2:45. Jane tried again to read the session, but couldn’t. At 3:10 I started to read it to her when Mary Jean came in to check the flow of the antibiotic. It turned out Jane was being given a second medication without being told. This was an antibiotic for a bladder infection. Mary Jean said Jeff must have seen something on the report of her urinalysis this morning, and ordered the Bactrim, which is quite powerful. Jane was mad. “I want to make a formal protest for the record,” she told Mary Jean, “that I wasn’t notified about this.” Mary Jean said she’d relay it to the head nurse — where I suppose it’ll die. It takes an hour for this second dose to flow into Jane’s body, compared to the one-half hour for the Gentamicin.

(3:30. Carla took Jane’s temperature — it was up again to 101.2. Judy came in to check the flow, and said Jane was to get the Bactrim every six hours, or four times a day. With the Gentamicin every eight hours, this makes seven medications Jane gets every 24 hours. Jane has let everyone know she’s pissed off. What’s happened? “It would be nice to know,” I said when she expressed concern, and she replied that she was doing all she could. I had the feeling of being caught in a whirlpool of the medical profession’s making, and being drawn in deeper instead of being able to extricate oneself. I wondered why the body couldn’t heal itself except through fevers and infections. “Well, that’s it, then,” I said, and went back to the mail until Jane said she was ready for a session.)

The bacteria is naturally found in every bladder — but when you collect it or isolate it, the doctors then call it infected.

(Seth’s statement that Jane doesn’t have an infection reminded me that months ago Marcia Kardon had very adamantly told us that when a person has a catheter inserted “they always—always—get an infection.” [...]

[...] He does not have an infection. [...]

[...] Originally he set a rather massive assault upon his physical system, that did involve among other things, infection. Literally he was infected by negative ideas. As he rids himself of these he rids himself of infections. [...]

Negative thoughts running rampant do cause infections. [...]

[...] Jeff said maybe the splotches on her feet were infected, and Judy said the drainage from the small ulcer on each hip had increased. [...]

[...] This in turn reminded her that Jeff had also said this morning that maybe she had an infection from the catheter, “since people always do.” [...]

It is easy to see how people at the hospital, for example, speak constantly of the power of infection, the need to take steps against it before it develops, and so forth, and the little stress laid on the body’s natural ability to ward off such conditions. [...] Yet it is certainly well known that such places are indeed breeders of infection, and of course the belief makes it so. [...]

[...] Last week a rather mild infection had developed in the open area that had been infected last August. [...] Of course her body has largely kept the infection under control; actually the elbow looks much better. [...]

(Then there followed the round of infections, the antibiotics, the broken leg opening up, and so forth, and to me these meant that she had little hope herself. [...] Instead I saw the fevers and infections, and realized that those events meant the time for healing and walking was not now.

(Jeff was in — said results of all of the tests showed a blood infection. [...]

[...] Jane had had a blood infection, now clearing up okay. [...]

[...] This is Day 15 of her new campaign, and I’d already reminded her of the question we wanted Seth to answer: Why had this fever and infection business erupted after Day 1?

I should note, by the way, that her bedsores weren’t infected when she went into the hospital, but were less than a week later. [...] A sign warning of infection was put on the door of 3B9, Jane’s room, and stayed there until she went home. “If the infection in that ulcer on your coccyx reaches the bone, it means at least a six-week stay in the hospital,” exclaimed Jane’s principal doctor, Rita Mandali (not her real name). [...] And I began to read up on how many kinds of staphylococcus bacteria alone there are, and indeed how common infections are in hospitals, since by their very nature those institutions are far from being the cleanest in town….

Now, there’s very recent discussion in medical circles that many cases of senility are caused by a “slow virus infection,” rather than just heredity or the traditional aging and oxygen starvation of the brain. The hope, and the unproven speculation, are that eventually such an infection might be treatable medically. But either way (whether senility arises through aging or infection), beliefs would come first, helping the whole body maintain its healthy performance well into old age, or encouraging it to deteriorate unnecessarily.

[...] He asked how Jane was, asked about her work, and books, and commented quite positively on her recovery from the recent infection and fever. [...]

“The viruses and infections were of course present. [...] You have general immunity, believe it or not, to all such viruses and infections. [...]

[...] The condition originated in an infection of the intestine. The infection spreading to other organs. [...]

[...] He said a part of the bone at the break site, had become infected, and probably had been for a long time. [...]

[...] He told Jane that there could be an infection there, at the site of perhaps a bone spur — he wasn’t sure. [...]

[...] I told her that at lunch time John Bumbalo had called and said that his father wouldn’t be going home for a while: the doctor has found an infection in a lung. [...]

[...] She showed me how the large scab on her right knee, over the site of the broken bone that had become infected, had peeled off partially in hydro this morning. [...]

[...] I figured she needed the rest after the bouts of infection.

[...] Life is seen as “a valley of tears” — almost as a low-grade infection from which the soul can be cured only by death.