We got home around noon and I slept a bit. Terry was till too wired for that.
As is often the case with this, a mix of good news and bad news. The good news is that the jaw/fibula area is healing well on a visual inspection. The surgeon had clear margins with the dead bone tissue, so that was easy to scrape out. He extracted two teeth, not just the one that was planned. The procedure needed a bit more effort than planned and that's the start of some potentially bad news. Three screws were infected as was one end of the titanium plate. The screws were easy to replace, but a plate replacement was beyond the scope of this procedure. The plan is to up the antibiotics in hopes of the infection healing, but that appears to be a long shot. In all likelihood there will be another procedure to replace the plate, but no way to know when that might need to happen.
So, I am home eating ice cream and we are binge watching "The Good Wife."
Merry Christmas to all and I'll update more when something changes.
Mike
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