Back to UCSF, what would the doctors want to do?

Today I'm grateful for...
Being able to express my emotions
Great medical care for my wife
Antibiotics
The love of the people surrounding my family

What a long week it has been. I have made the drive from Reno to San Francisco three times this last week and I'm not done yet. After saying goodbye the the kids on Tuesday AM, Lulu and made the journey down to the UCSF clinic so her breast swelling and wound healing could be assessed. We talked about a variety of things as we drove the scenic highway 80 down the mountain, but we were just avoiding the real issues of "what's next"? I know that the reality of the situation is that Lulu will be at the very least admitted to the hospital for IV antibiotics, and more likely a hospital stay and a surgery to repair the infected breast. The drive seemed to be taking much longer then normal this trip?

The Prius knows this trip well, and the familiar scenery passed by while we spoke about what we were going to do if the scenario means Lulu will be sending the week in SF? We both agreed as the car pulled into the 6th floor of the parking garage that she was going to be here for the next four to five days.

During the appointment with the plastic surgeon and the nurse was a tense 30 minutes. As he arrived to see Lulu I could tell the surgeon was felling horrible that Lulu was having the issues that she was with her breasts. He was extremely caring in his presentation of options to Lulu's new infection. We were soon all in agreement that the only options is just we had expected, four days of aggressive IV antibiotics, and then breast surgery to remove the infected implant and to leave the area without expansion to heal for 6 months. Once the tissues have healed appropriately then Lulu could have a new implant placed during another surgery. If all goes well that she might be done with the process in May of 2011? Both my wife and had been prepared for this as the answer to her recurrent infection issues. After the orders were written up, Lulu was admitted to the 4th floor of the Mt. Zions UCSF clinic.

Lulu was in remarkably good spirits for having to spend the next four days hooked to a IV pole, and mostly restricted to a hospital bed. The nurses have been close to fantastic every time we have been here, and the trends continue when we were assigned to Roshone. She was so caring, helpful, and skillful. I was happy ghat she would be the first nurse of many so Lulu would have the best experience (at least to start off with). Before we knew it she was hooked up and started on the vancomycin, and we both just hoped the rest of the week would be a success?