Tick tick tick tick sitting here watching the clock go round and round. My surgeon comes in and says there is a ray of hope that surgery can be avoided. It seems all these blood cultures and samples they have been taking all week finally did some good. The blood that was taken this morning showed the bacteria levels had leveled off, even improved by a micro-millimeter. They took more samples this afternoon. Doc says as long as they dont decline then we will continue dumping $2700 bags of Tigecycline into my veins. Cutoff on the number of bags that I can use without damaging my liver or kidneys is thru Monday. At least it is not surgery, for now. I have no problem letting somebody else be the scalpel cushion for the next couple of days.