Recovery Day 65

So today marks 7 weeks since Alan came home. 7 very long weeks. 

The cultures on the fluid in Alan's pelvis have all come back now. It's confirmed he has Strep B, E. coli, and prevotella bivia. All are gut based bacterial infections. He is on his fourth round of antibiotics! 

Generally since last Wednesday's drain placement, Alan has had a lot of pain where the drain is, continuing low grade fevers, and between 50 ml and 70 ml of fluid removed through the drain daily. 

The last couple of days he has been more tired and more run down. Sleeping more than in the past and just generally feeling off. 

Dr. You believes the best thing is the drain. Getting all the infected fluid out as possible. It mostly looks fine but occasionally has puss remnants, like grimy little bits of puss flakes or something. I can't think of any other way to describe it. 

In good news Alan's bed sore is finally healed after 6 weeks of treatment. Sadly he can't really tell due to the drain placement being so close to where the bed sore was. 

While Alan is healing as best he can, Rebekah had her wisdom teeth out yesterday. Her top right wisdom tooth was still to high up that he was unable to remove due to the proximity to her sinuses. So he left it to remove later. 

She was pretty amusing post surgery as she was quite mad she was not allowed to have Chick-N-Minis. She has tolerated liquids and soft foods well today. Hopefully she will be able to eat some of our Christmas dinner. 

An update on Audrey, since I haven't mentioned her in a while. She has focused intently on her physical therapy to heal her back. Band kept her from healing but thankfully she stayed at a steady place throughout band. Thankfully she was able to decrease next week down to once a week. We continue to pray that she will stop having regular pain from the accident in June. 

We are looking forward to calm, low key Christmas of healing. I pray all of our family, our friends and our chosen framily have a wonderful holiday. For those of you mourning this season, we pray so deeply for you in your grief and we love you.