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Grateful thanks to you all for your kind words and support! You cannot even begin to imagine how much that means to me. Yeah, crankydragon, it is the Baptist. Not that I knew about their reputation, but adding traveling time with a child not old enough to visit just wasn't an option... At least here, I can go back and forth several times a day.

They had scheduled surgery for this morning, but it didn't actually happen until after 5pm. Took about 45 minutes. Apparently, it was quite a sizable abscess, which they drained and then packed. It seems to be fairly common in the summer months for people with a compromised immune system to develop such abscesses. He was quite miserable tonight after the surgery, but they're giving him morphine to control the pain and assured me that he'll be much better tomorrow. I was very grateful that the nurse on duty tonight was competent, not only with her offerings of explanations without me even asking but also being very sympathetic that I went home because Little Man especially is very upset that his daddy is ill. And his 18-yr-old sister shouldn't be asked to deal with that kind of emotional trauma. The nurse said that he's likely to spend most of the night sleeping, and I'll go back in the morning.