A solution at last

[icepixie]

Thanks to everyone for your comments on my last post. I'm on a tiny iPad keyboard right now so it's hard to respond individually, but I appreciate them.

The eight hundred doctors assigned to my case have decided with what seems to be about 80 percent confidence that my right ovary grew a 5 cm abcsess, rather than a generic cyst. There's a similarly-sized cyst-or-abcsess attached to the pelvic wall right next to it. I've been on vancomycin and some kind of heavy-duty penicillin combo drug via IV for 24 hours now, and I have at least 48 more to go. The original plan was to stick a needle in my gut and drain the things, but the radiologist said there was too much bowel in the way. Now we're going to wait until tomorrow to see if the antibiotics alone kill the infection, and if not, I'll be getting another laparoscopy tomorrow.

At least they've finally found the problem, and hopefully some prong of this approach will fix all the symptoms for good. I guess there are worse things than 4-5 days in the hospital. *crosses fingers*

Comments

[spatz]

Go go antibiotics! *crosses fingers with you*

[wintercreek]

Yikes! I hope something in the next few days does indeed fix things up for good. Wishing you competent doctoring and good response to the antibiotics!

[jae]

Fingers crossed that this is finally the beginning of the end of that abscess!

-J