Dr. Nagle does it again... But why so much pain this time???

So... Dr. Nagle is summoned to perform the surgery again. Much to his dismay as he didn't want to have to do this the 1st time, let alone do it again 6 months later. But for now, there was no other options. Surgery went well. I was resting comfortably in my room on 14 East...

A day or 2 passes and I am still experiencing some excruciating pain post surgery. I remembered the last time it hurt for about a day or so then was OK. However, this time, a few days pass and I'm still having tons of pain. So, the medicine team has the surgery team back to see me. They notice that around the tube-site, there is some infection which would explain the pain. So, they took some samples of the infection for testing. It would be 24 hours and we'd have some results of what type of infection I was dealing with exactly...

Test results came back. I didn't just have 1 infection, but I was able to have 1 infection and 1 infectious disease. Staph Infection and Sudamonas. So, now the tricky part was treating the infectious disease since the usual course of action required some form of Penicillin (a drug allergy of mine), so before we could start the antibiotics, I'd have to be de-ensitized to the medication. A full day of getting poked and pricked all over my arm. I test OK and am able to start the anti-biotic needed to fight the Sudamonas, Zosyn. I'd get this every 6hrs for 2 weeks. However, I was going home in a few days, so now I would be on a horrible schedule...

For 2 weeks when I came home I had a permanent IV in my left arm, and had to hook up to the antibiotics every 6 hours. I was on a 3am, 9am, 3pm, 9pm schedule and so my sleep patterns were awful. It seemed much easier when I was in hospital and the nurse would come in at 3am and hang the Zosyn, but now I needed to wake up and administer it. All I wanted to do was rest and recover, and yet here I am waking up every 6hrs, in addition to continue to do my tube feedings and fluids at home. My days were full. I was exhausted. Hopefully after these 2 weeks, things would go back to just having to deal with the fluids and feedings...