Surgery 2 complete!

I think I may be on the road to recovery, but I don't really want to jinx anything just yet. When the infection proved too persistent for regular antibiotics, the infectious disease specialists prescribed an IV antibiotic that I ended up having to administer for ten days-- seven before the surgery, three after. They claimed it would be very simple (a mere 30 minute infusion daily!), but they forgot to mention that it involved about a dozen steps, and the constant nagging of the line in my arm made it very difficult to care for Jack, to get dressed, and to shower. Ugh. So my mother came for the week, assuming the surgery would be put off until I was guaranteed to be infection free.

As it turned out, the surgeon and infectious disease specialist decided it would be best if I had the surgery on the 7th day of the antibiotics, so my poor mom had to fly home for Michael's recital at Eastman on Saturday the 17th and then fly immediately back here on Sunday so that she could take me to the hospital on Monday the 19th. David stayed home with Jack because children aren't welcome at the hospital during cold and flu season, understandably.

The surgeon, who kind of creepily reminds me of Dr. Damiani, told my mom that she really needed to stay and take care of me-- ha ha-- she was planning on staying a week anyway, so she decided to stay until my follow up appointment yesterday (Tues, Oct 27). I was surprised by how good I felt post surgery. I didn't really have any soreness at the site-- the only truly bothersome part was that every large muscle in my body ached as a result of some muscle relaxant they gave me as part of the anesthesia. It went away in about 2 days, and so we spent the rest of the week getting things accomplished both in and out of the house. She helped me organize all of my kitchen cupboards, the baby's clothes, we went to the DMV to have the car inspected, we took the car to Toyota for its 30,000 mile checkup...she cooked, she cleaned some more, shopped...it was really relaxing and absolutely wonderful to have so much QT with my mommy!

She had to leave today, so naturally I'm devastated, but the doctor gave me a good report yesterday. I appear to be healing well. With any luck, I'll be able to put this almost 4 month mess behind me soon and enjoy my baby in all of his wonderfulness. :-)

The other great thing about the last 10 days is that David, who had had weeks of really, really late nights, all of a sudden got a bit of a break and came home around 8 every night! He ate dinner at home several nights in a row (gasp!), and we went to my Aunt Colleen's house outside of Fredericksburg for the whole day on Saturday.

Life is good.