It has been 22 very long days since I updated last. Jose did very well for about the first week after his discharge from ICU. Then little things started happening. We had to go back to surgery for some touch ups on his scalp and they needed to close some of the additional areas that they were unable to close prior. The plastic surgery side of things, once that was done, was moving along quite nicely. Mercedes came down for 2 weeks to spend with her dad, and Lori, Jason and Family came down for a week as well. The had just left on Sunday. Throughout this past week/weekend Jose started showing some more significant amounts of pain. He had been struggling with pain since the surgery but it seemed to be getting worse. On Saturday night it was the worst anybody had ever seen in Jose. On Sunday evening the doctors finally did a CT scan of his head. The CT scan came back and the Chief Resident came to my mother and I around 11pm and informed us that Jose needed to go back to surgery. There was very distinct collection of "infection" around the cranial plasti that they had put it. The doc's didn't want to wait but were given no choice since Jose had been given a feeding, and he can't go to surgery with food in his stomach. So the Doc decided that to be safest Jose had to get moved from his room down to ICU, just in case. We moved Jose down to ICU and got him settled around midnight Sunday night. Early Monday morning he was taken back into surgery where they removed the cranial plasti and cleaned him out. Jose then returned to the ICU to recouperate. They kept him on the ventilator until yesterday morning. He's doing well and has been waking up just fine. The doctors have been trying to figure out what type of bacteria it was and how it got where it did. Everyone is still praying that it hasn't spread anywhere else. Thus far his blood stream seems to be clear. Jose should be discharged from the ICU today and brought back up to the floor. He'll be on anti-biotics again for quite awhile this time. He's peaceful now, and hasn't been showing any signs of real pain. The doc's believe we caught it in time.
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