Day Thirty Nine Part Two

3:53 AM

Well we are back at CMC-Charlotte. Around 8:00 on Sunday night the night nurse came in to change Don's dressing. It was oozing continuously and had more blisters on the incision. She paged 3 doctors and finally the last one contacted her to say we needed to move him to a hospital. Then we called CMC-orthopedics, the docs that did the surgery. Around 9:30 they said he needed to transported to CMC-Charlotte and that the ortho doctor would be waiting for him in the emergency room. We left the nursing center at 10:45 and arrived in Charlotte just before midnight. About 12:45 the ER doctor came in and looked over the incision and said he would be in contact with the ortho doctor. About 1/2 an hour later the ortho doctor came in. He said he wasn't impressed with the look of the incision and really didn't know why we were there that nothing "looked impressive". Then he inserted a swab into the "blister" that busted on Saturday night and it went way up in the incision. When he pulled the swab out, infection came pouring out. He said "now that's impressive". He spent the next 15 minutes or so trying to get some of the infection out and it just kept pouring out. He said Don would have to go back into surgery and that hopefully it would be Monday morning. He was sent to x-ray and then up to the 11th floor tower - the ortho wing. We are in room 11908. We are waiting for a surgery time an will have to be here several days. Please pray! We all need your prayers again!