Vist to the surgeon
Feb. 11th, 2025 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So 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 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.
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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
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.