GoCats76's Journal

My visit with Dr Shetter, my surgeon, could not have gone any worse.  After almost 4 weeks since he pulled the last stitch and our continuous hydrogen peroxide flushing of the area and even though the site is completely clean with no sign of infection that Elizabeth could see who an excellent nurse, he walked in and said it did not look good.  

He gave me 2 options.   The first is to just have "all the hardware removed and replaced sometime down the road" or schedule surgery tomorrow and have infectious disease control look at it clean it all out and sew it up.   I chose the second.   Shetter said there is a 50-50 chance of this working.   If after cleaning it all out with the 2 day hospital stay and IV antibiotics for 2 weeks, they will check it again.   If at that point the infection is still present, out it all comes.

On June 2nd, when he checked those last 2 stitches, he was leaving the room, paused and then came back and pulled them.   That hesitation was obvious but seemed insignificant.   I now wish he had kept walking.    At least I would know why this occurred.   Did he pull them too soon, or was the infection already inside?

This surgery will be the last time he will ever touch my head!