Post-Surgery

The doctor and ENT visited bright and early this morning around 7. The ENT felt they abcess and thought it felt harder and closer to the surface which meant it was coming to a head. Combining this with the fact that she had the fever the night before and that her labs only improved about 10%, he thought our best choice would be to go ahead and operate. The OR had a really full schedule since it is the end of the year, but they were able to squeezer her in at 8am. I couldn't get ahold of Brian who was at home with Jace so that was a little distressing.

They wheeled us down to the pre-op room and gave her some medicine through her IV. We met the Anesthesiologist and the Nurse Anesth. who was a co-worker of a good friend. We were sad to hear that Paul was at West but comforted by the fact that he said she was in good hands. I left before they put her under and she really handled that fine.

The surgery went quickly and the ENT came and chatted with me before Brian could even get to the hospital. He didn't find a pocket of pus like he expected but the abcess had compartmentalized so he broke all those apart and put in a drain to let any pus/infection that would form escape. He said they would leave the drain in until at least tomorrow afternoon and add a second antibiotic to get rid of the infection. Izzy was a little out-of-sorts after she came out of the anesthesia. I left to go get lunch and when I returned 2 hours later she was up, eating lunch, and back to her ornery self.

The nurse just came in to do her vitals and said that the strep test from Sunday evening came back positive. We finally have our source of where the infection started. It is so surprising because Izzy didn't complain a bit until the abcess had already started forming.....I guess we have a tough little cookie!

We will be here until Thursday afternoon at the earliest and hope that Izzy's lab work and fever continue to go down =)