Not good news. Seems that the good doctors left a little present when they put in the last shunt catheter. Yep. Staph.

They took everything out today and have given him an external shunt for the next few days. This was surgery #5 since March 18.

7-10 days of IV antibiotics. It will depend what the Infectious Disease doctors decide.

Surgery #6 will be later this week - you know, when they have to go back in and put the shunt back.

I think I have finally cracked.

When we got there, we were told that they thought there was an infection in the shunt. They did a CT scan and everything finally looked good. They tapped the shunt and tested the fluid. They said that they were looking to see if anything grows out in the next 24 hours. The pediatrician had just came in at hour 25 to say that all was good. 20 minutes later she came back and said that the staph had finally cultured. At hour 26.

Can you say "meltdown"? I most certainly had one. I raged at anyone who looked in my direction. I place the blame for all of this crap (and two extra surgeries) all on their shoulders. We got an "I'm sorry." Oooh, that so helped make everything better.

I came home tonight to try and get so sleep. I go back tomorrow to stay Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, so Isaac can go to work. He'll come back Wednesday night so I can go to work on Thursday and Friday.

Hopefully, even if I think of things on the conservative side (because when has anything ever gone our way), we will be able to bring him home next Sunday.

I am so tired that I can't even think.