James Mathison started to feel abnormally unwell about the last week of Oct 2019. From that time on he started noticing a metallic taste in his mouth and lost all taste for food, including favorites. It got to the point that anything he tried to eat tested so awful he lost his appetite altogether. He got very little nutrition despite everything I prepared and offered him so I purchased him Ensure shakes to give him some nutrition, orange juice, apple juice, applesauce, yogurt. I kept him supplied with lots of water, fluids and probiotics.  He began lying down every day all day long. Many times chills would come on him even if the room was warm. His whole body would shake uncontrollably for 20-30 minutes. His started having severe pain in his right lower back radiating down his leg so I took him to the ER on November 6, 2019 where he was treated for muscle spasm, sent home with a RX for oxycodone and methocarbamol. He informed the Dr on duty and nurses about other symptoms: metallic taste in mouth, no appetite, no energy, and severe pain in right lower back just below the waist line. Dr Late Richards was in the ER room once time and after hearing all the complaints she replied, Mr Mathison, you're quite a conundrum. He stopped taking the prescribed meds three fascinated because He didn't like the feeling of disorientation they gave him. In the long run, were glad he didn't take them any longer. The test results from the Nov. 6, 2019 appt showed kidney abnormalities yet James was treated for muscle spasm and sent home that night. Two weeks later on a Tues around 1:00 p.m. when I took him to the ER because he was feeling so much worse his blood pressure was critically low and he was showing signs of organ failure. The rest is too much to cover but my family and I firmly believe if he had been admitted on Nov. 6 when I first took him to the ER he should have been placed on an IV and kept. Someone misdiagnosed him in our honest opinion and he has nearly lost his life over this. 
He's been having dental work over the last year without being asked or given antibiotics before the dental procedures even though the clinic I'm not mentioning have in file he had prosthetic valve performed in Dec if 2016. So there are two agencies that possibly could have caused this unnecessary situation. 
Yesterday he had his second open heart surgery in which his awesome Dr who performed the surgery in 2016 had a lot of repair work to do using a homograft, mitral valve and aortic from a human donor which came from another state within two days!!! 
All being said at this point we feel very fortunate that James is doing very well in the new ICU wing. When he eventually gets discharged he will most assuredly have to go through 6 more weeks of antibiotics infusions to make sure the recreated heart parts don't get infected.
We thank our Lord Jesus Christ for his continued blessings on James and our family!.