Kecia's first appointment this morning with the plastic surgeon who will be in the operating room during her mastectomy. Not alot of new information was given but it was encouraging to hear that both surgeons are in agreement with this process and will be working together quite well. She is basically just waiting for them to coordinate their schedules to get the surgery. Her appointment this afternoon was with the infectious disease doctor. She learned that there definately is bacteria growing in her bladder but she shows no other signs of an infection so they are doing tests and cultures to determine if it is also an infection or not. If it is NOT an infection, they will probably leave the bacteria until after she had healed from her mastectomy. This sounded a little scary to me because I'm thinking "won't that give it time to over run her body and be even harder to treat?" But the specialist (who may know a little bit more about this than I do) reminded us that there is always bacteria throughout our bodies and most is not harmful unless accompanied by an infection which then attack the body and fuels the bacteria to go wild. If she DOES have an infection then they will have to put her surgeries on hold while they aggressively treat it. This will include hopitalization, IV antibiotics, and support meds to combate all the side effects of the strong antibiotics needed to keep it under control. Sounds like alot, but so much better than Tuesday when they said it was a bacteria that couldn't be treated. Kecia is doing well both emotionally and physically. She said she feels alot better knowing that there is something they can do, and physically she is feeling great. (aside from that "I feel like I've gotta pee all the time" feeling) While she isn't happy about needing it, she is still "okay" with having the surgery. Now we are just praying that there will be no signs of infection, that the bacteria will stay under control, and that the surgery will be scheduled sooner than later. Will let you all know as soon as we hear anything.