To Work, that is the question... and Surgery Tomorrow

Today I went back to work.  I am out of sick time and used quite a bit of vacation time in our visits in June and July to Baylor.  This weekend after we found out Archie was going to have another surgery, we had a discussion about whether he wanted me to be with him this week while he was in the hospital or whether he wanted to try to go on a vacation later this year.  At this point it has been almost a year since this situation started and we have not been anywhere or had a vacation at any point.  So I am going to take tomorrow off for the surgery and recruited Archie's mom and step dad to come spend the days for the rest of the week with Archie so I can work Wednesday-Friday.

Archie said today went by quickly which is always good news.  Thank you to Amanda and Brent for coming to visit him, I know that distracted him and made the time go by quickly.  Below is a picture gifts Archie received - an autographed baseball and Captain.

Autographed baseball by Brent Craig - hilarious!

He is so nice to humor me with this picture.

Tonight for his last regular meal before surgery was a steak.  After 7 am he is not allowed anything to eat which will make the it be a long day for him.

Archie's surgery is tomorrow in the afternoon but we do not have a time yet, sometime after the neurosurgeon finishes his first surgery of the day.  The doctor will cut a half dollar size hole in Archie's skull to remove the catheter.  The procedure should be about an hour and he will microscopically remove the catheter.

I forgot to tell everyone that Archie ended up not having meningitis.  They could never get it to grow.  He had elevated white blood cell levels, his protein and glucose were out of whack, his headache and neck ache were the indicators.  So they took him off the antibiotics for the meningitis yesterday and switched him back to oxacillin.  The other news is that once Archie gets released from the hospital we get to restart the 6 weeks of oxacillin again. GRRR!   Not what I wanted to hear but hey, I am getting good at it plus if anyone ever needs help Archie or I can give you a hand.
Please say prayers for him tomorrow.  Thank you in advance.