Surgery Update

Tim had his short surgery on Monday around 1:30 p.m. It only lasted a couple hours. Hopefully they fixed his bladder this time! Yesterday he went to Interventional Radiology to have the tube on his nephrostomy replaced. Hopefully this one will drain better and finally give his bladder some relief so it can heal.

Today he has a fever of 102 degrees F. They drew blood cultures, did a chest x-ray and took a urine specimen. They just removed his PICC just in case. The plan is to replace it after 24 hours. Of course the line might not even be the problem, it's possible the infection could be from something else. Blood cultures take a full 3 days to yield final results so we'll have to wait. As for the x-ray and urine, they don't take as long but I'm don't believe the results are back yet.

He is having a lot of pain in his back near his kidney but despite that pain, he has managed to get out of bed and walk around a bit.