Post-op day 12: 7:18pm

Well, there has been some changes since I last posted. I noticed that Jimmy's chest incision was red on Christmas night. He also noticed that the right groin incision was draining, hard and red. Saturday morning I called the on-call physician and they suggested that we come in to the ER so that they could take a look at the incisions and decide if he needed oral or IV antibiotics. Unfortunately, they decided he needed IV antibiotics. He was admitted to St. Luke's on Saturday evening after much opposition. He really didn't want to stay; this adventure has been wrought with mishaps...just add this to the list.



Today they switched him from IV to oral antibiotics, he was hopeful that they would send him home today. Unfortunately that did not happen. I have stayed the last two nights at the hospital with him, but I decided that I would come back to the hotel this evening and let Max be out of his crate. Poor puppy. :-( Jimmy is hopeful that he will be released tomorrow. The docs mentioned that they may have us stay in town until next week to make sure that things are getting better. Ugh, we were really hoping to come home this week. At least we won't have to drive in all the snow and probably ice...at least we hope that it is all gone before we have to make the drive back home.

Emotionally we are tired. I didn't realize how exhausting this would be. Jimmy says that he is doing well. I really think that he is fairing better than me, for which I am glad. Jimmy is having trouble laughing due to pain, which sucks, cause his whole persona is laughter. I really wish he could laugh and enjoy himself. I mean the poor man can't even watch sitcoms on TV because it is painful. That just seems wrong.

All in all, Jimmy is recovering well, aside from this little incision thing :-) Honestly, he has been lucky the infection has not made him sick, it just worried the crap out of me. He just wanted to wait and see if it got worse. Uh, I don't think so!! We had a few words about that. He has said before, "you shouldn't marry a nurse", but I think he's pretty glad he has me. Even though I sometimes make his life miserable.

There is not much more to add at this point. I hope that we will be home sometime next week. I will update again tomorrow and let you all know if Jimmy is released from the hospital. Thank you all for your continued support, thoughts and prayers. Until tomorrow.