The "Clean Out" - Surgery

Dr. Smith was able to finally start surgery at 7:45pm (Texas time, I'm in New Mexico until Saturday) and she should be back to the room soon with Dad and Sarah.  The infection is Staph but not necessarily the "BAD" Staph as people would say.  It is VERY susceptible to IV antibiotics.  The doctor would prefer to use IV antibiotics to treat it so she is going to need to go home with IV antibiotics and she has a Central Line in place already that is a good thing.  Dr. Smith has to get the antibiotics set up with Infectious Disease  doctors which could be a challenge with the holidays, but we are praying that is not the case these next few days.

He did clean out the area that had the infection under the incision and took out a few sutures that were dissolvable and were dissolving but didn't want to leave anything "foreign" for her body to reject.  He said he was able to clean really well and said the bone looked good from what he could tell.  He has ordered a MRI for in the morning to verify there is no infection under the bone and look at the area where the tumor was also.

Dad and Sarah seem very positive after talking with him and Dr. Smith only had to open about 2 inches and shave just a little bit so hopefully her "Medicare Mohawk" won't have so much to grow back this time!  

Mom is such a trooper and strong woman!  Thank you all for praying and loving her!

I sent her this quote prior to surgery in November and I truly believe this to be her:

Please pray for healing and pray for infection to GO AWAY and STAY AWAY!!!!

Goodnight and sleep tight!

Love,
Rebekah