Val’s culture came back from the fluid around the expander showing infection. For the medical folks specifically “gram negative rods”. This particular infection is a little bugger and very difficult to get cleaned off the expander.
With that news, we made the decision with her docs to pull the expander. It will be permanently removed and we will restart the reconstruction process after the chemo treatments are all completed.
Val and I are doing good with the decision and have peace having some specific next steps. We are definitely learning to look at the path forward but only take one step at a time, leaning hard on our Lord.
The kids are doing good with having Mom gone but we are all ready for her to be home. It may be possible we get discharged tomorrow!
We had the kids up last night for several hours, getting some finals studying done along with some bill paying. It was good being together just doing normal stuff.
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