I am in the hospital after a second surgery. I had surgery to remove my AN in April and then about 19 days later I noticed that my head was leaking a bit from the incision. I was told to come back to the original hospital and the surgeon removed all of the packing, mesh, plate, etc. from the original surgery. It was all sent off to see what bacteria/infection grew. It has been growing now for more than 72 hours and nothing is growing. In the meantime, I am on the heaviest duty antibiotics (vancomyecin) in the hospital. I am told that the doctor wants to put in a PICC Line and have me pump in these very strong antibiotics at home. I am having doubts, though. There are no growths on what was taken out of my brain and although I want to be on the safest side, I feel like my immune defenses are being destroyed without much evidence of need. It's not like I haven't been pumped full of the antibiotics already. I have seen very little on these forums about this issue of infection. It does not seem to be a CSF leak so I'm wondering what experiences people have had with these infections? Have some of you run into very big, very scary infections and what has been done?