Jo's Surgery Update #21

We've had a few setbacks over the last couple of days.

I went down Tuesday night with some sort of gnarly stomach problem. I'm hoping it is not a contagious virus that has been passed around at church some recently, but rather what I ate Tuesday night. I ate differently than Kay and Joanna so hopefully that is what it was. Regardless, from 10PM Tuesday through 8AM Wednesday I became the patient and Joanna became the nurse. I finally took a strong anti nausea pill at 8 and was able to sleep some. After resting I felt much better, and today I feel almost 100%.

Also, yesterday we decided that a mild pink color that had been slowly getting worse on the lower part of her incision was worthy of a doctor phone call. His PA called her into the office. She gave Joanna a 10 day antibiotic to fight off any potential infection that might be brewing and told her to call again if it got worse at all.

Another bothersome issue is that all of her sterry(sp?) strips have come off (which they were due to) but one little place has started leaking a small amount of fluid. The PA told us to keep an eye on that too, but it got worse last night and we had to change her bandage multiple times. It seems to have stopped this morning (while she's laying down) but we are nervous that as soon as she stands up again it may start up. So we have a call into the doc already and are waiting for a call back.

Pray with us that Jo won't have an infection. If she does, they will probably have to go into the incision again which makes healing much more difficult. We are also praying that if indeed that is God's will that he would keep us faithful and teach us more patience.

We will keep you updated. Thanks for sticking with us.

"Your kingdom come,
Your will be done."

C&J