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[Eadric Anstapa]

OK, they only kept we in the hospital 3 days.  I am home now  and will try
to catch up on emails tomorrow.

Basically they did as expected and I went into surgery and they opened
things up again, cleaned out a hematoma, and put in a drain tube connected
to a device called a hemovac.  I have been kept on strong IV antibiotics
since the procedure.  The drain was removed this morning and I am now much
more comfortable without it.

I stayed in the hospital a little longer than expected because I evidently
had a pretty elevated white cell count.  The blood cultures all came back
negative and my white count is now back to normal.  They seem to think that
I just have a strong response to stress/surgery and the elevated white count
was a normal response of my body dealing with the surgery.

All of this has set my full recovery back a week or two but I feel OK and am
glad to be back home.

Thanks for the thoughts, emails, and phone calls and visits to the hospital.

Regards,

HL Eadric Anstapa
Ansteorra
eadric at scabrewer.com