I am home now!

KathigME
on 7/28/09 2:54 am - Gorham, ME

Except for some nauseau from the antibiotics, I am feeling good. There was no need to have another surgery done to clean out the infection. It seems to be clearing out nicely. I have a hole about an 1.5 inches long that a nurse comes to my home and packs and checks on my progress and vitals.

Posted earlier for benefit of peeps that didn't catch what was going on.

Well, here I lay in a hospital bed at Maine Med. On Friday, just started feeling lousy. It started with a slight fever and wicked headache. Then came achy and getting chills. I just thought some sort of bug. On Sunday, I got up to go to the bathroom and then went to the kitchen to ge****er. All of sudden got real dizzy & queazy, i couldn't see! Mom helped me back to bed, that passed very quickly. Got up next morning and got in the shower, it happened all over again. Mom called the rescue and they looked at my incisions (pannic/TT on the 1st, for those that don't know) and they looked fine. They took blood and urine tests and they sent me home said it was a UTI. Ok? So then..tues still fever and chills still going on. I woke up around 11pm and felt a wet spot on my binder?WTH? I went in the bathroom thinking maybe a little blood from the incision. I opened the
binder and all this yucky brown fluid was spewing out of a hole in my pannic incision, so another trip in the rescue and here I am! I am getting iv antibiotics, raging infection says the ER doc. They called the on-call with plastic & hand and he squeezed a bunch more of the yucky stuff and I was admitted. Dr Claytor would be in later in the day. He packed the wound and it's getting changed a couple times a day. He says should know by the weekend if the need to go in and do surgery to clean things out.