Good News

I tried to write this post 5 times from the hospital, but Blogger kept crashing and taking my draft.  I finally gave up.

GOOD NEWS!  The blood culture came back today indicating that the abscess WAS the source of the bacterial infection!  I've never been so happy about bacteria.  So now we wait to see if the antibiotic cocktail is enough to clear the infection and reduce the fever.  Mama was feeling somewhat better midday but had fever by evening and also still relies on morphine because of the pain of the deeply-embedded port, which is still draining.  She also had an abdominal x-ray to rule out any other complications, just in case (and it wore her out . . . )

All in all, though, a very positive day.