OMC! I didn't mention that the best thing for us to celebrate this weekend is that today is Big D's last day on IV antibiotics! He's free and back to his old self after 8 months of extreme misery and pain! Praise God!
BTW his docs at Emory are so awesome -- the orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Rhee and the infectious disease physician/professor Dr. David Kuhar (two Kuhars at Emory).
And I'd also like to thank Google

because Dr. Rhee told me that if I had not googled back pain and staph and had not diagnosed Big D's back pain (which the Columbus GA docs failed to do), Big D would be dead now. Can't imagine life without him after being together since I was a teenager.