damn bugs

Turns out that pancreatitis is a gift that keeps on giving. A culture of the gunk being extracted from the site (pancreatic fluid and little bits of pancreas) came back crawling with pseudomonas. So it's back on the IV for me, some antibiotic.

Picked it up in the hospital. (And everybody was singing, "All I want for Christmas is an opportunistic infection.")

Fortunately, since I don't yet show any symptoms, I can delay the IV drip till I get down to Florida. The surgeon here is calling my G...