The infection flaired back up in my spine,
I am now wearing a central line
so I can have another 4-6 weeks of vancomycin IV at home.

Now the really bad news is that the infection is eating my spine away.

the docs are planning to go into my stomach and open it to the diaphragm, clean
all the infected bone they can get out,
then flip me over, open my spine, and remove that cage at L-4, and clean the back side of the spine out.
Their is no name for this surgery its so rare.

Survival rate is very low, but I am shamelessly asking for prayer and lots of it.
I don’t even know the questions to ask.

The boys have forgiven me for leaving them,, kind of..

tigger chillin while ignoring mama

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Yeoman 3rd Class Margret Ueberlauer

Yeoman 3rd Class Margret Ueberlauer hands out toys to HIV infected children during a community relations project at the Camillian Center in Pattaya, Thailand. The USS Abraham Lincoln Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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