Vist to the surgeon
Feb. 11th, 2025 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_chipmunkSo today I got up around 10:30 after getting to bed around 1:30. I ate breakfast and used up the last of my milk, and had coffee, showered and dressed. Then I waited for mashfanficchick and RK to get here, which they did at 1:15.
They took me to the doctor and I got there by 1:50. My appointment was for 2:00. this was scheduled, to examine my incision and I suppose change my dressing. But what I didn't write here yesterday is that yesterday I woke up with the front of my nightgown drenched in leakage from the incision, and it continued leaking all day. It didn't seem worrying enough to make a special call since I was seeing the doctor today. There was no bad smell, the discharge was clear and only slightly pink, there was no pain, swelling, or redness and heat. Last night when I undressed though, the bandage entirely fell off, it was so drenched. I rebandaged it with stuff I had.
So I got to the doctor's and waited. And waited. And waited. At about 3:37 I got called into the exam room, and had my blood pressure taken. They gave me a paper gown and told me to take off my top and so I waited topless for another hour.
Finally the doctor came in. I told her what had happened, she looked at the incision and apparently I popped some stitches and the incision wasn't closed. She decided to staple it. So she gave me a lot of local, and stapled it shut. She bandaged it up but said I can take the dressing off tomorrow and shower. I have an antibiotic and need to come back in two weeks to be unstapled.
So finally at around 5:00 I was out. Yes, three hours. RK was ravenous. We went to California Pizza Kitchen, but we did take out. They got pizzas, I got pasta. We ate at RK's place.
By then it was too late to get to the drug store for the antibiotic that she prescribed, so I have to do that tomorrow. RK drove me home and I got here just in time for my Al-anon meeting by Zoom.
After the meeting, which was quite good, I Skyped the FWiB. We had a nice time.
By the time we got off it was almost pet feeding time. I fed the pets and then started here.
And that was my harrowing day of waiting for the doctor. RK andmashfanficchick ran errands while I was stuck, so it wasn't wasted time for them, but I still feel bad for them.
Now bed and reading.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. My friends.
3. The leakage was nothing worse than popped stitches.
4. My meetings and the people there.
5. My medical insurance.
6. Bed soon.
mashfanficchick and RK to get here, which they did at 1:15.They took me to the doctor and I got there by 1:50. My appointment was for 2:00. this was scheduled, to examine my incision and I suppose change my dressing. But what I didn't write here yesterday is that yesterday I woke up with the front of my nightgown drenched in leakage from the incision, and it continued leaking all day. It didn't seem worrying enough to make a special call since I was seeing the doctor today. There was no bad smell, the discharge was clear and only slightly pink, there was no pain, swelling, or redness and heat. Last night when I undressed though, the bandage entirely fell off, it was so drenched. I rebandaged it with stuff I had.
So I got to the doctor's and waited. And waited. And waited. At about 3:37 I got called into the exam room, and had my blood pressure taken. They gave me a paper gown and told me to take off my top and so I waited topless for another hour.
Finally the doctor came in. I told her what had happened, she looked at the incision and apparently I popped some stitches and the incision wasn't closed. She decided to staple it. So she gave me a lot of local, and stapled it shut. She bandaged it up but said I can take the dressing off tomorrow and shower. I have an antibiotic and need to come back in two weeks to be unstapled.
So finally at around 5:00 I was out. Yes, three hours. RK was ravenous. We went to California Pizza Kitchen, but we did take out. They got pizzas, I got pasta. We ate at RK's place.
By then it was too late to get to the drug store for the antibiotic that she prescribed, so I have to do that tomorrow. RK drove me home and I got here just in time for my Al-anon meeting by Zoom.
After the meeting, which was quite good, I Skyped the FWiB. We had a nice time.
By the time we got off it was almost pet feeding time. I fed the pets and then started here.
And that was my harrowing day of waiting for the doctor. RK and
mashfanficchick ran errands while I was stuck, so it wasn't wasted time for them, but I still feel bad for them. Now bed and reading.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. My friends.
3. The leakage was nothing worse than popped stitches.
4. My meetings and the people there.
5. My medical insurance.
6. Bed soon.
