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The following in green came from Mom today:

After the Fri surgery, the culture in the petrie dish grew a common type of staph infection called aureus. The name means gold because the culture grows out little grape cluster-like shiny gold pebbles. google it. The VERY strong antibiotics I've been getting are already helping, but now they can use even more specific ones for this staph. It lives on everyone's skin everywhere. Nice that I'm the first one to use this new hospital room and this was the first day they'd ever used the new surgery room.

Today surgery went well. They put a layer of artificial skin on the wound. In about a month another surgery will do another skin graft with my own skin. That has to heal, infection-free, then they can do the arthopaedic surgery to fix all the bones. They also installed a PICC line today that is a long-use iv wih an 18 inch tube that goes all the way inside to just above my heart. A great improvement and can't infiltrate.

They believe they got all the staph out of the skin and bone they removed in the surgery Fri.

I'm in good spirits and my faith is in gear better since I know they can treat this....not easy, but do-able.
so much love to my dear family.
John and Dean have been great, as always.