We found out this morning that the cultures that were sent to the lab during Rachel’s surgery came back positive for a staph infection. We’re still waiting on test results to find out if it’s normal staph or MRSA. Either way it means 6 weeks of IV antibiotics then a year of oral antibiotics. She had a PICC line put in today, which took a long time and was pretty traumatic.

Doctors had been “cautiously optimistic” that she could go home today, but now we’re waiting on the lab results, then waiting to get the antibiotics delivery and in-home nursing set up before she can come home.