...and so it begins....again.

The 'slow burn' infection apparently wasn't as "slow burn" as they thought. After being off my oral antibiotic for about a week, the crazy muscle spasms and low-grade fever came back. To avoid having the MRSA put be back in the ER, my surgery date was moved up to today. Going in today to have the old hardware removed and infection treated locally. I'll have 3 weeks of clearing up the infection and then it's surgery to have new fusion hardware placed from the abdominal side as well as the back. Hopefully they won't have to fuse up to L3.

I'm hoping my spine will be stable enough without the hardware that I can come home for that 3 weeks. Otherwise, it's 3 wonderful weeks in the hospital.

I'm open to all of the prayer I can get from this fabulous group of folks, that also happen to be AR-15 enthusiasts.