Scotty woke up Thursday morning nauseated, in pain, and his incision was swollen. We immediately went to PMC to take Scotty in for CT scan & proceeded to his DR. appointment. I knew judging by Scotty's incision being swollen that he would have to have the shunt. What I didn't know is he would have to have emergency surgery right than. Dr. Brockmeyer advised that he was going to have to reopen his incision & drain the fluid. He said there is a leak & he would need to do surgery on that as well to repair it. The surgery took 3 hrs and when all was said and done he said Scotty did well & that it didn't look like there was an infection but, he was taking cultures and would watch it to see if anything occurs. Unfortunately, Scotty did have an infection where his original incision was after 48hrs the cultures showed he had developed a staph infection & they started treating him with Vancomycin. They also had to get more cultures of from the incision of where the shunt was placed. This meant they had to draw fluid from the top of his head & I cannot put into words how awful it was to watch. Scotty continues to fight to get well but, he has had a fever of 103 and has been nauseated. They have decided at this time to hold off until Monday for surgery. They want Dr. Brockmeyer to make the call as well as continue watching the cultures that they took from his shunt to see if, anything grows. We continue to pray & hope that he will not need another surgery & that he will get better soon. He did get a visit from his little friend Lauren on Saturday. She definitely is a fighter herself & brought a smile to Scotty's face. Lauren is the daughter to a friend of mine named Rushell & her husband Keith. They brought us some magazines, Raider stuff, & apples. They have had to spend a lot of their time at PMC hospital & know how tough it can be. We appreciated their visit & their hospital tips.
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