I Forgot...

In the last post, I forgot to mention the second surgery.

Kent was prepping for a colonoscopy and started having a lot of really severe pain. We hurried to the E.R. and found that his colon was closed off. The infection from his ruptured appendix had spread and created a large abscess on his colon. This wasn't any old infection either. It was this crazy infection that is REALLY bad if it isn't caught quickly. The statistics we were originally told were like... 90% fatality rate. Not what we wanted to hear. We later found out these were WWI stats. Everyone has this bacteria in their stomach, but after abdominal surgery it can spread.

Anyways... they couldn't see anything on the C.T. scan, so they went in for exploratory surgery. They found all the infection, cleaned up a bit, removed the abscess and a portion of his colon, then started him on IV antibiotics. He was in the hospital for almost a week on antibiotics and with a drain to get rid of all the infection that time. They didn't want to take any chances.

Now he is feeling pretty good! Still recovering from 2 abdominal surgeries, but overall really good!