They determined that the infection is a staph infection, so the docs have been moderately concerned. He's been on his cocktail of 2 different antibiotics, plus they started giving him a steroid yesterday. Today, they are doing surgery to clean out the infection. This started around 1:30 and is expected to be about 1 hour. It's completely minor compared to the last one - no bone removal and no spinal cord invasion. They are opening him up, flushing out any infection pockets, then closing him back up.
The docs have told him that he'll be in here until next Tuesday. That means that he will have been in the hospital 19 days in the one month since 13 December and his first surgery. Hopefully this will be the end of it and he'll be able to start recovering quickly. The week before this was a tough one, as they had taken him off the steroids which had been giving his body an extra boost, plus the staff infection was attacking him and sapping strength. We're hoping that getting rid of all the infection will return some strength that's been missing.
I'll update when surgery is done and let you know how things went.
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