In January 2017 Toni recieved a craniotomy for a non-cancerous tumor the size of a lima bean.  On March 20th this incision site started to leak fluid.  Toni went into her nerosurgeon on Wednesday March 22  who placed a staple on the incision site where she had been leaking fluid.  They also took cultures at this time to make sure there was no infection.  Wednesday night into Thursday morning Toni started to have severe headaches.  Thursday Keith and Angela noticed strange behavior and an inability to complete thoughts.  Keith had a doctor appoinment in Sioux Falls, SD so Angela went with him to this and left Toni to rest.  Around 4 pm Toni had called her son-in-law Derek requesting help she was able to communicate but was in excrutiating pain.  When Keith and Angela arrived home around 5:30 Derek and his Mother were helping Toni get ready to go into urgent care in Pipestone, MN.  When Keith arrived at urgent care with Toni the doctor said the best treatment would be provided in Sioux Falls where the neuro teams were.  Keith, Derek, Toni, and Angela all headed to Sandford ER in Sioux Falls, SD.  After a CAT scan they said that their were no abnormalities they could detect and requested a spinal tap for menigitis.  The only catch was these results wouldn't surface for a few days.  They admitted Toni into the hospital around 1:30 am Friday morning and started administering antibiotics and pain medicaiton to try to relieve some of her pain.  Around 10am Friday morning the cultures they had taken at the clinic on Wednesday had came back and they were positive for Staph infection of the inscision site.   The doctors stated that they were going to keep her on the slough of different medications until they could rule menigitis out completely.  The plan of action was to wait and see if the doctors were able to manage her pain.  Around 3:30 Friday afternoon the Infectious Diseases doctor came to look at Toni, while observing Toni's inscision site Toni went into a full seziure.  This then lead the Infectious Diseases doctor to page all of the doctors on Toni's care team including an on-call Neurosurgen.  When the Neurosurgen arrived he informed the family that Toni would be taken back for emergency brain surgery to try and remove the staph and see what else could be going on stating that this should fix her pain.  Around 8:30 pm Friday evening Toni was taken back to prep for surgery.  Around midnight Keith recieved a phone call that the surgery went well and that the infection had not punctured her protective membrane so they didn't investigate or mess with that any farther.  He had taken the infected bone out and placed a temporary drainage port in her head.  He said that she could have some discomfort from the surgery but other than that she should be feeling much relief.  Saturday morning around 1 am the family was able to see her after surgery.  She was very tired and out of it from surgery.  Later that morning Toni was not feeling much relief and still stating pressure and discomfort.  The doctors told Keith and Angela that this should go away in a day or so.  Toni was still on a variety of different antibiotics to ward off infection along with pain medications.  The surgeon had placed a Port in Toni's neck Friday evening during surgery to help administer these medications.  Sunday came and Toni was still not feeling much relief and was now stating she was having right hand tingling and was having issues using this extremity.  When the doctors came for rounds that day they said this was probably due to her seziure and that it should slowly go away.  Sunday night Toni was able to sit in the chair in her hospital room for a bit and there was a glimer of hope.  Monday came and she seemed to be healing and doing slowly better yet she still comented about pressure in her head and was having headaches.  The Infectious Diseases doctor requested another spinal tap.  This showed some inflamed spinal fluid.  Wednesday Keith and Angela were informed that Toni did have menigitis and that because of her still being on antibiotics that this should resolve with time.  The biggest thing was rest and time for Toni to heal.  Thursday afternoon they redid a spinal tap and the fluid was elevated so they relieved some of the fluid which Toni stated helped her pressure almost instantly.  Toni was able to come home March 31st with a list of medicaitons and a PIC line in her arm that administered antibiotics every 4 hours automatically.  Keith and Angela were going to provide her cares at home.  Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday a home health care nurse visited the family at home to help with education on proper care and use of Toni's medicaitons.   The road to recovery is going to be long but the doctors say that she should slowly return to normal. 
While Toni was in the hospital the bills continued to accumilate along with the cost of gas for travels to and from Sioux Falls, SD.  Keith and Toni will have to continue to have to go to Sioux Falls weekly for doctors appointments and check ups to assure the healing process is going correctly.  Your donations will help relieve some of this cost for the family and the payment of medical bills.  As of right now Toni will be unable to drive for six months and has to have her PIC line in for four to six weeks.  Keith is returning to work and Angela is helping out as much as possible.  Toni enjoys visitors for short periods of time as she does tire easily. 
Thank you everyone for your support, even the littlest amount and prayers help during this trying and trivial time.