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Patrick Volkerding

Patrick Volkerding

Posted Dec 22, 2004 6:59 UTC (Wed) by leews (guest, #4690)
In reply to: Patrick Volkerding by iabervon
Parent article: Patrick Volkerding returns home

Accoording to my wife (an MD), he got a nasty fungal infection.

This is deduced from reading his txt file, so it's just IHHO.

Cheers,
WS


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Patrick Volkerding

Posted Dec 23, 2004 17:58 UTC (Thu) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029) [Link]

I can certainly empathize with that. I had histoplasmosis and a bacterial infection at the same time, which put me in the hospital for about a week. Five treatments of Amphiteracin B (each followed by a seven-hour saline flush) later, I was feeling much better. My lungs still look like they were hit with buckshot, though. I hope Patrick's recovery is as complete as mine was.

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