More yucky stuff...

Dad had another surgery this morning. They took out all of the gauze out from yesterday and found more infection and some dead tissue. The surgeon took it all out and put on a "VAC bandage" which is like a really sticky saran wrap they can seal around the incision so he can still go to the bathroom; it also has a vacuum tube coming out of it so it can remove the fluid from the infection. He does have a cath tube in, but the vac bandage is fairly new and it at least prevents an ostomy bag. He was in a huge amount of pain when he came back up from recovery. I stayed until he got a morphine shot and it was under control, I will say that was really hard to see him in that much pain. He said it was the worst pain he has ever felt, like someone was pulling his lip over his head. He will need to have the bandage thing changed every two days, the one they do on Monday will be in surgery again. After that it will depend on how much it has healed by the next time it needs to be changed. The infection does not seem to be responding much at the present time. The swelling in his jaw/neck appears to be going down a little, the labs came back showing a strep infection. They have not gotten the lab results back to see if it is the mrsa virus in the other area or something else. Right now he will be there until the middle or end of next week, it will all depend on if his body will start to help fight the infections.


I will post more as I know more.