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Whitney Copeland (5:45pm PST, Saturday, 2/5/22) We are asking extra prayers for Pepper. We have found out the fever on her birthday and at the beginning of this week are due to an extensive staph infection in her shoulder and back. She has gone to surgery three times this week, to scrub away and scrape as much infection away from her burns. They have removed all synthetic graphs from her upper body. It is a very aggressive approach and the Dr’s all agreed it is appropriate with the amount of infection. She will have surgery #21 tomorrow morning, for yet another scrub. We will be back to square one with her upper body, once the infection is cleared.  Today her blood pressure is lower than usual indicating her body may be under more distress than her outward appearance and sweet spirit may be showing. They have started her on two extremely strong antibiotics,  and they are really trying to get ahead of this before it gets out of hand and potentially life threatening.  Today the Dr. share