So time for an update!!! I ended up having emergency surgery yesterday.  They went in expecting to find an infection and to clean it out. Well when they got in there, there was no infection.... what they found was that my body litterally had not healed inside or out!! It looked on the inside as if they had just done the surgery the day before not three weeks before.... the only difference was that the dissolving stiches had dissolved and there was no evidence that they had ever been there. This time they cleaned it out.... and stitched it inside and out... hopefully this time it will heal.

Brianna

Bri, you have a heavy load for one so young.  I would do just what you are and wait on the surgery.  Because you are so close to finishing the semester, giving out a whole week would be difficult and possibly impossible to make up.  I wish you luck and I honor you and your mother for your continued faith and strength.  Bobbie

Thats a tough predicament ! If your having green discharge thats obvious a bad sign but being on those heavy duty antibiotics apparently are not helping >> I think your wound needs to be debreeded and re dressed. You might even have to go on IV antibiotics at a stronger dose before he does another surgery?? If you wait too long for another surgery, the infection might get worse and things could turn traagic

good luck

lisa

Diana,

I tend to agree, but it actually wasn't my surgeon. The surgery was done by Dr. Yasemzksy and his resident Dr. Wendt from Mayo.  Dr. Yasemsky is currently  out of town, so we have been going through Dr. Wendt. When we went down there, Dr. Wendt looked at it and then brought in another colleauge of Dr. Yasemzksy's, Dr. Huddleson.  He introduced himself as "a spine dude", but he looked at it and he was the one who gave me my options he also told me that it was completely up to me & if I just felt like I was completely sick of taking meds and done with feeling crappy like I did then they would admit me to the hospital that day and schedule me for surgery the next.  We  are technically three more days into the week, and it hasn't improved, if anything it has gotten worse.  So we will see, if anything we were optomistic and its always better to be optomistic than pesimistic.

Brianna

Bri, I would wait.  Antibiotics are powerful.  Your Doctor doesn't sound like he wants to put you through another surgery.  Keep a very close eye on things.  Diana