Thank you Cookie. This is how I feel exactly. Knowing my history and being a specialist, antibiotics prior to and after treatment might have been a good precautionary measure at least. I am focusing my energy on getting back on the road to recovery right now, but he will be a future focus of mine I guarantee it.

The swelling is going down but it's still there and the drainage is not clear yet. The fever spikes about time for the antibiotics again. I have another trip to town tomorrow to have the wound redressed and for the IV.

I also figured out the "shortage" of visiting nurses also I think. I am on state funded insurance now and they are known to pay their bills in about 114 days. Very sad. No one wants to wait to be paid so they have all been too busy to take my case. I also had to go to one hospital for the IV because the clinic where I received my chemo does not take my insurance for outpatient injection services.

I am unhappy about this and really upset about this setback because I was doing so well. The bright side is that a lot of the swallowing issues that I was having are getting better as the swelling in the abscess goes down, so my attempts at eating food should get back on track when this is over I hope. It just feels like we are subtracting a couple of months from my progress instead of adding some.

Patty