Infection

Well, I was almost positive we were in the clear with Henley. Judging by the pictures everyone would have thought so too until last Thursday. I noticed things were looking a little more red than usual and a tiny spot in the incision looked like it was trying to split. I called Dr. Greenfield's office immediately and sent them a picture. They said if she was not running fever, or any puss was coming out of it and there was no enlarged area on the back of her head that looked like fluid collection then we just needed to keep it really clean, dry and watch it very closely. 

We followed all of those steps and its looked worse and worse day by day. Yesterday we hit a breaking point quite literally. The incision opened up and began bleeding yesterday. Henley came home with blood on the back of her shirt and several times the blood would clot and then open up and start bleeding again. We sent more pictures yesterday and asked them what to do. Dr. Greenfield called me personally and we talked for a little bit on the phone. He said that after seeing the pictures, it was clear that it looked as if it had almost healed completely and something has happened to "make it angry". He was concerned at the level of redness on the lower of the two incisions and said that it looks infected and we need to treat her with antibiotics to try to quickly get this under control. He said we did not need to go to the hospital, but to just get on the meds 4 times a day for 7-10 days and he wants me to send him photo updates daily so he can watch it with us. 

So that is where we are at as of now. We had planned to leave town this weekend but have cancelled all of our plans to stay close to home and near a hospital should anything change beyond this. Please keep Henley in your prayers and pray that she does not start running fever or anything else decides to leak out of the incision. I have seen people get flown back to NYC for things like this and so it makes me a little bit nervous.