When I was watching some fireworks on the 4th I happened to notice my leg felt wet. When I got home I noticed it was leaking from my biopsy incision. The fluid was clear so I wasn't concerned. Sunday it was still leaking, dripping all the way down to my ankle every 5-10 minutes. Monday I called my doctor, Tuesday the P.A. called me and sent a prescription of antibiotics to a pharmacy for me. I wasn't able to pick it up on Tuesday. Wednesday morning I woke up to an extremely swollen knee. I couldn't hardly bend it. When I got up and started walking it started to hurt pretty bad. I called the doctor again, the nurse told me to come right in to see them. The oozing was now yellow (gross I know), my leg was also turning bright red and hot. When the nurse saw me she went and got the P.A. out of surgery to come and look. She told me it looked like I had a pretty bad infection since it was hurting so much. She said I needed surgery to have it washed out. She went and consulted with Dr. Randall who confirmed. So lucky me I went into another surgery at 2:00pm yesterday! The surgery went really well and I am in less pain now. The doc told Ben that my tissue inside looks like that of a 90-year-old woman. My leg is now in a immobilizer for 2 1/2 weeks and I am on crutches.
My at home nurse came by this morning to change my dressing on my leg. Here's a picture of the new wound. Also you can see where it is still red. It has gone down since yesterday, but the red was creeping all the way down almost to my ankle and wrapped around to my calves.
At the Huntsman hospital as they were prepping me for surgery they said that Dr. Randall wanted a picc line put in me to administer the antibiotics through. Below is a picture of what a picc line is.
Here is my picc line :)
The at home nurse this morning showed me how to administer my own antibiotics which includes several steps of sterilization, flushing, administering antibiotic, flushing, then injecting the heparin, and clamp. I have to do this 3 times a day including during the night for at least two weeks.
So needless to say this is a lot more then I thought it would be. I was hoping for a quick fix of just some oral antibiotics but Dr. Randall wants to be safe because of my tissue damage and how close it runs along my shin bone. I have to say though I am in good spirits about everything, because I am still cancer free!!!
P.S. Next time I post I promise no pictures with blood :)
We started out the day with fun 4th of July hair for the girls, notice Cambrie lost her front tooth a few days ago! Got to love it!
A few blocks away is the court house and they have this patriotic buffalo in front of it.
On the steps in front of the court house, mom and kids
We asked this elderly man if he could take a family picture of us. He was really sweet and said yes but had trouble with the camera. So...this is what we got, but hey it's all of us together so I can't complain. :)
There was the big bouncy slide. The kids could really get some air as they would jump as they slid down it! 
We gave Cambrie a guinea pig for her birthday. She was so excited to meet her new pet!
The 6 oldest grandchildren: Addison (4), Hailey (3), Megan (8), Brayden (8), Cambrie(7), and Melanie (4)
Here is a picture of all the Gibson Grandchildren. The two little ones are Peyton and Jett. It was so fun to finally get to meet Jett, Brittany's new little boy! Brayden loves that he is not the only grandson any more.
Ben is the wonderful man I always dreamed of marrying. He is known to our kids as the FUN and FUNNY one! He is such an awesome father to our three children. They really look up to him. We are blessed to have this man in our lives. I asked the kids 3 things they loved about their dad and this is what they said: 
My Father-in-Law, such an incredible example! I have always felt loved and accepted by him from the time I first met him. I can't thank him enough for raising a wonderful son who learned a lot from a great man. He also said he can teach me to water ski... I am holding him to that one! Stitches out tomorrow! :) 
We also had an early birthday party for Cambrie and Seth. There birthdays are only 1 day apart. We played Bunco which was totally fun!
Family picture, that is how Addie likes to pose for pictures now days. :)
The bumper boats were a hit to everyone except Addie, she didn't like getting wet
Ben liked the batting cages
Cambrie and Addie played for hours in the kiddie cove, Brayden was too tall to go in though he did sneak in a couple of times. :)
They served us all you can eat hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, soda, candy, and ice cream. While we were eating they had a big screen playing the movie, "Bolt"
It was a fun filled day.
Ben unfortunately was not able to get off work for the surgery since he had to open that day. So my dad took me to the hospital and my mom stayed with the kids to watch Addie and get Brayden and Cambrie off to school. Below is a picture a couple hours after surgery when we were getting ready to go home. I thought it was interesting they made me wear the Ted hose (spelling?) on my right leg and not my left.
Today I took a look at the new battle scar. :) The incision is actually in my old scar it is hard to see. Then I guess he did really wide stitches to hold it together.
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