Infectious Disease

Today Heather had her CT scan and then in the afternoon went to an infectious disease specialist. The neuro surgeon wanted her to be seen to make sure that the open incision was not infected and spreading to her skull. If she were to get a bone infection it would really slow us down and be dangerous. The doc was nice and quick. He reviewed the cultures they sent from the wound and found it to just be staph areus which is a bacteria found on everyone's skin. The surgeon had figured that was what it would be and had already started her on antibiotics to kill it. Luckily he guessed right that Heather just had regular staph aureus. There is a kind that is resistant to most antibiotics that has become more and more prevalent due to the over use of antibiotics and they had to make sure it was not that kind. Fortunately it was not, and they even tested the specimen from Heather's wound and found it to be sensitive to the antibiotics she was already on. The incision looked great, healing well and without any drainage. He felt there was no problem with starting chemo, so next stop neuro surgeon tomorrow to hopefully get cleared. IF cleared then chemo and appointment with the oncologist.