07-21 Hospital, Day Five

Dr. Livingston is back!  He seemed pretty disappointed and surprised that all this had been going on while he was on vacation.  He said we could continue to pack it and hope for the best, since the main hole was closing, or we could do a second surgery to clean it all up.  I asked him what he thought was best, and he said the surgery.  So we go in at 4:30pm tomorrow to clean it all up.  He'll be doing pretty much exactly what I thought, lifted up a small flap with a smaller incision, cleaning out underneath, and then closing it back up.  I've requested an epidural, which seems to be okay.  Now it's just a waiting game until tomorrow.