This is indeed good news. It's one of the dangers of any surgery. And it's never a small issue.
A year ago I had back surgery after a bad fall at home. I was told after the MRI I needed surgery to repair 2 vertebra that were damaged. I had been having pain in my lower legs from having the fall.
They did surgery and after the surgery they did another MRI. This was like 2 weeks after the surgery. It showed I had gotten an infection from the surgery. It looked like little balls of cotton going up and down my spine.
I was placed on 6 weeks of strong antibiotics and after that had surgery again to remove a cyst at the base of my spine which was the source of the infection. It was located where they had performed the first surgery.
I asked the doctor how that happened and he said he didn't know. Secondary infections are possible in any surgery.
So had the surgery and another 6 weeks of antibiotics it was finally controlled.
One problem..I could not walk. I had been in bed so long recovering from the surgery I had lost a lot of muscle mass in my lower body. The infection had damaged some nerves. I remained a total of 15 months in Rehab having to learn to walk again and build my lower body strength. I had gone from 195 lbs to a low of 128 lbs. I am now up to 155 and still in Rehab.
I am going home at the end of November but I am permanently disabled now. I can not drive a car anymore and will require a lot of nurse care and rehab at home to see how much more I can recover.
I say all of this becuz surgery is never an open and shut thing. I hope Dak is going to come back strong but you never know. So I sort of laugh when posters say Dak will be fine.
We don't know anything yet. Give it time. God speed Dak.
We miss you.