Hi all,
Just got home yesterday from another stay in the hospital, our home away from home. Not quite 2 weeks ago Taylor started having drainage under her earlobe again. Her surgeon checked it and drew some fluid out. It looked fine then, not infected. It kept draining the rest of the week as he said it would. Sunday morning I took the dressing off and it was obvious that it had gotten infected. Off to the ER we went. Unfortunatly, her surgeon was out of town and has been all week. Another surgeon took her to OR, reopened part of the incision by her earlobe about an inch long and suctioned as much infection as he could. They filled her full of heavy duty IV antibiotics until yesterday (Thursday) morning and sent us home. The transplanted muscle seems to be OK so far. Her surgeon will be back next week and we see him on Tuesday.
Wish us luck,
Kathy