Mason Hospital Update 11/6 part II

Our little man is asleep now.   It's been quite the day.  He did well in surgery late this afternoon and the urologist stated "the pus just flowed out" after he made his incision.  He was able to get in there and break up the pus pockets and then they irrigated the abscess cavity really good.  Instead of placing a drain, they ended up packing the abscess with medicated gauze.  They were able to send a culture of the pus so we should hopefully have an idea of the bacteria causing the abscess in the next day or two.  The plan for now is to continue IV antibiotics and on Thursday, they are going to take him to a minor procedure room in the hospital, sedate him, and remove the packing and likely repack the wound again vs. maybe just leave the packing out depending on how it's healing.  Mason's groin area was too swollen and infected for the urologist to get a good read on the issue with the cyst.  As mentioned before, this is likely going to have to be addressed surgically going forward.  However, the urologist did mention that the cyst/tract may close up on its own after performing the incision and drainge.  Time should tell.