Monday Update

Well, today was road trip day. We drove to STL to see the surgeon again. It was 8 hours of driving and 1.5 hours of doctor appointment:) The good news is the infection doesn't seem to be worse, but it isn't gone. So, he spoke with the infectious disease doctor there, and they switched her to antibiotic number 3. This should clear it up completely. They took cultures of her palate and we will probably meet with the infectious disease doc in December to try to figure out where these infections are coming from and where to go from here for planning surgery round 4 (6 if you count the neurosurgery and the lip repair:)). M's surgeon will be in India for most of December doing palate surgeries on kids their. HOW COOL IS THAT!:) I think it is awesome he is still going on these types of trips with all the years of experience he has. He has another surgeon there, who saw M the day after her surgery, who will be available if we need him. He also asked me to keep him updated on M via email. He actually apologized to me for not being able to fix M's palate this time and I felt bad. I certainly don't blame him. He made every effort to make this a success and he is leaving no stone unturned to determine what is causing all these breakdowns of M's palate.