Hi Cleo! No, I haven't heard from my original OS since Sunday when we corresponded via email and he told me to give it another couple of days. I think he may be out of town. One positive is I am feeling a lot less pain, not sure if it has to do with the addition of the steroid (I don't think it would work that fast, but I don't really know), or cleaning out the wound (I'm still washing pieces of bone graft out - pretty gross), or from the attempt at draining it earlier today, but whatever it is, I'll take it. Hopefully the numbness will go away soon, too. I haven't had any more nerve pain since early yesterday morning, not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I'm supposed to follow up with my original OS on Monday and I want to try to get some answers, and if this persists any further, I'm definitely going elsewhere. I actually think if it starts to bother me again, I may just go to the ER, see if they will do some cultures and blood tests, and then refer me to another OS. Hopefully it won't come to that, though.