I did not go back to work for over a
week—maybe as many as 14 days. I was a complete and total physical and
emotional wreck. I went to the hospital every day, bur Andrew was not getting
better. He had a fever that he could not shake. He lost 10-15 pounds and was
listless. He was also developing Herpes lesions on his shoulder as his
resistance lowered.
They ran some IV
antibiotics and eventually did a CAT scan. The scan showed a --sub-phrenic
abscess--a sac that forms around an infection and floods the area with white
blood cells trying to wall off and overcome the infecting bacteria. The sac
with the walled off infection fills with dead white cells—puss-- and is very
difficult to reach with either oral or intravenous antibiotics. Another surgery
was required to remove the abscess. Andrew had his second operation within a
week.
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