MaryAnn Status 3/26

The surgery happened today, rather late.  She actually got back into her room at about 7:30.  However, she had a great appetite and ate most of her dinner.  I talked with the surgeon a little while ago and he said everything went as expected.  He cleaned out the shoulder and found a small amount of cloudy liquid, but no pus deposits and no evidence of anything that would require orthopedic surgery.  He put in a drain as planned, which he will take out tomorrow.  She will have her arm in a sling for the next few days, but that is somewhat academic as she had very little use of the right arm anyway.  Physical therapy will start in a few days.  As I've said before the IV antibiotics will go on for quite a while and everyone feels that eventually that will fix the joint problems.  I think we're getting close to discharge, but we'll know better tomorrow.