Have any medical knowledge? PLEASE help if you can.

Deeply appreciated. My personal belief is that prayer is excellent medicine, and in any case, you've cheered me up.

THANK YOU. You are an angel. Swimming, and otherwise. I will be with her and having a chat with her doctors within 12 hours, so I will definitely keep the spinal tap in mind.

{MELON PRESS} back atcha.

Likewise, I don't have any medical advice, but I'm sending you and your Mutti heaps of love and positive mojo.  She is obviously a strong woman to be walking 3+ miles every day!  I hope you get to the bottom of whatever it is that's affecting her, and that she recovers quickly and fully!

I am not a doctor but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.....

No knowledge but I will keep you both in my prayers. I hope all will be well. Big Hugs from Bmore, MD!

I am not sure if this is in the range of possibilities.

Lyme disease and associated bacterial infections including, Bartonella and Barbiesia.

These can start out as normal bacterial infections and go into the Cental nervous system causing all of the sympotoms you described. This happend to my wife and then reoccured three years later (last november).

It requires a long term antibiotic treatment (3- 6 months) not the prescribed 28 days from the CDC.

Both of you are in our prayers.

Jim ... you are a wonderful practitioner and a super Iron guy. Thank you so much. {MELON PRESS}

And yes ... I will guard myself well.

Thank you so much Doc Soo. I hope you are having a blast

So far they're keeping tabs on her electrolytes, and she's getting TPN, and normal ranges. I'm not sure what kind of equipment she's hooked up to so not sure HOW they're keeping tabs and I'll check on that too.

Like others, I have no medical knowledge (and my watching medical tv dramas probably doesn't help either...), but also like others I will keep you both in my thoughts! My first instinct said stroke + typhoid---I hope not for both your sakes! Hang in there and take care of yourself! You're no help to her if you knock yourself back down in the process of helping her.

And Kim, Keith, Amy, Matt, and Verga:

Thank you so kindly for your replies and thoughts. You guys are wonderful and I will take all that strength from you and give it to my mom. And me.

Oh Verga ... Lyme is North American almost exclusively. I am so sorry your wife had to go through all that!

P.S. And you too, Kate! Thank you! I thought of you when a giant very fast but not so long centipede-like thing was crawling across my floor. I like them, but hey, you like geckos.

Well ... I'll smile at my mother; that'll have to do. Thank you, my mad polymath.

Thank you, sweet Ecozany!

Thoughts I had  as I was reading your post and replies:

-initial thought: stroke?  Was this just out of the blue or had she complained of not feeling well of late?

-magnesium and potassium are normal - that's good

-i agree with increased WBC, febrile -> infection - pneumonia...?? my first thoughs for  aspiration/community acquired antibiotics are  possibly ceftriaxone and azithromycin...?

-when I read "localized seizures in legs" i thought: what are those?  i'm not familiar...

-agree with ABear - amiodarone tox is rare

-reasonable no haldol request - use lorazapam for muscle spasms/agitation...?

I'm not familiar with tropical dz or the treatment of such, and again, these are just thoughts I had.  Your post will probably percolate in my brain for a bit and if I come up with anything more, I'll let you know.  Good Luck, Yanti - if you get your strength from you mom, she surely a tough, tough lady.

Thank you so much, Tracy. You are a gem and I appreciate your time.

My mom is a million times tougher than I am. She grew up in a very poor family during WWII, with six brothers, five of them younger. She has also survived life with my dad for over 50 years and the three children that she had.