Monday, January 25, 2010

Another operation

Shane's test results indicate he continues to have an infection at the site of the surgery, even though he's been on antibiotics for two weeks.  He still has one of the two catheters that they gave him during the surgery last Sunday, but since the CT scan shows fluid building up again, they will do a simple procedure to put the second catheter back in.  The doctor said this infection will not resolve itself with antibiotics alone, and part of the reason Shane is having so much trouble healing is because of the radiation treatments he received before the surgery.  Luckily, tomorrow's procedure won't involve any incisions, can be done without full anesthesia, and will only take 10 minutes. 

2 comments:

  1. Fingers crossed that it's quick and painless tomorrow. Sending good thoughts from California, Shane!

    :-)

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  2. Great to see you yesterday, Shane! I hope everything goes smoothly today.

    xo,
    Jim

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