Oh it was quite the journey. 1 st surgery was July 31,. I was on standard antibiotics like amoxicillin and a few others but the fevers returned after 3 days post meds. At day 47 I was in the surgeon’s office with a 102 fever shivering and I told him I thought I was dying. So he said you have sepsis and immediately admitted me and I went in to the ICU for 9 days and they were able to bring me back to life. Two days post icu I happens to bend over and my chest incision bursted with infection so back to the surgeon and got another ostomy bag. They had taken out the Jtube out while I was in ICU. This is crazy but, on the way back home I felt like eating for the first time in 60 days! I had the ostomy bags for 4 months. The second surgery February 2019, same thing. This time i was at Mayo in Jacksonville. I went to the er 4 times they would keep me 1 or two days with iv antibiotics vancomycin and one other. 3 days later pain pain and fever. The last time May 20th, I still had a wound vac on and went. To the er as the pain was so bad and fever. This time they kept me on a liquid diet and waited 10 days for proper infection specimens with the infectious disease folks. Also had a EUS as they thought I had bowel necrosis at the junction after the Whipple . Thank goodness it was ok. So I had Ecoli and Yeast infections. Had an IR drain and a pic line ..started on, placed on TPN and antibiotics Meropenem for the Ecoli and Caspofungin for the yeast and after 16 days in Mayo, I had run out of home health days so I was sent to a Skilled nursing facility for 70 days ! I developed a blood clot, so they pulled the pic line and started on Eliquis and three days after coming home ….had kidney stones from the TPN .. had to have surgery and now have to follow a low oxalate diet. I lost 67 lbs and finally had to start metformin for pancreatic issues in 2021. Life was tough and recovery was about 6 months. Had to have a few iron infusions but doing well. I am about to start pancreatic enzymes for insufficiency and malabsorption. It just take time and a lot of prayers and support from family and friends! I hope that my story is the exception and not the rule. The goal will be no fevers and the appetite to return and feeling better will finally begin!