noel
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Noel has had a recurring irritation in the upper portion of his incision and finally contracted a staph infection. Our Internist had run a culture last Friday. We saw Dr. McGiffin yesterday....he will be doing some one-day surgery on Thursday. He is taking Lovenox injection twice a day in lieu of coumadin until surgery...he injects those himself into his abdomen. Dr. McGiffin is going in and remove a wire that he thinks may have been causing the problem to begin with. Noel has been on Doxycycline for about 5 days now and has 5 more to go plus a Mupirocin Ointment USP. Otherwise he feel good and is still doing well. Dr. McGiffin said his valves sounded really good.