Saturday, May 28, 2011

Surgery Moved to Tomorrow

Hey everyone. Pray for me. Surgery has been moved from Tuesday to tomorrow. My back incision is looking fine, but my thorasic incision(12" angled under my left shoulder blade) has formed a blister and spinal fluid is leaking out of it. The surgeon wants to proceed with putting in the shunt to act as a continuous drain from the base of the spinal chord to my belly. They will also put in a fluid drain at the site where the fluid is collecting and forming the blister. After surgery they will allow this drain to continue draining fluid and hopefully it's output will go down(that means the shunt is working). If the the output does not go down they will have to do another surgery through my chest to fix the leak at the front of the spinal chord.The previous surgery fixed the leak they found at the back of the spinal chord, it's possible that there is a leak at the front now as well.
They have also found that one of the cultures taken from my last surgery has grown bacteria related to staff(unknown what type of staff it is at this point). They are treating me with antibiotics. Pray that God keeps me in good spirits. This has all been really frustrated and I just want this all to be over. We all do....
Pray it happens in the morning, I have to go without food and fluids from midnight(as usual for every surgery) tonight till whenever they decide to operate on me tomorrow. The sooner the better for my number 13 surgery. Thank you all for your prayers.

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