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Well what a wonderful night i had. yesterday went and got drain removed. should of been a good day but got home and the pain in my left side got worse and worse. called natalie she said go to er because pain should of been getting better not worse. so hubby and i go to er get there about 4pm and don't leave till 10:30pm. took forever to find a vein for iv, was dehydrated. they drew blood,then i had to have cat scan,then had to drink this aweful stuff every 1/2 hr then had another cat scan.showed i have infection in drain tube site.go figure.then i get the chits from the stuff i had to drink so then i get a bag of antibiotics and my potassium was low so had to drink this nasty salty orange stuff. my side still hurts to get up and move .gotta get prescription filled today.called natalie this morning cuz when they talked to dr torres last night he wanted me to call clinic this am.so they made me appt for next thursday.  so far this surgery has been nothing but a pain in the ass. i tried drinking protein shake this morning got about a 1/4 of it they are just so sweet. can't wait till thursday so i can have scrambled eggs and mashed taters. i need to take vitamines today as i didn't yesterday. just took a pain pill so gonna try to rest a bit.hope everyone has a great day.
               {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}    DEB

OMG Deb!!! Yeah, I'd say it will be some time befor you would have anything positive to say about this. Good grief girl.Yeah, yesterday was supposed to be a good day. I'm sorry that you had to go through all of that & I hope you start to feel better soon! (((HUGS))) Angy

sounds exactly like what my sister , Sugar went thru...with the drain tube and the low potassium and the infections. she wound up getting another drain tube to drain what the first one caused. she was one sick girl for quite a while and felt the same way about the surgery as you do right now. she spent a lot of time in the hospital and running back and forth to St Louis. Dr. del Tora was her doctor too. so sad that they wont see that the drain tubes are causing lots of problems...love and hugs will get my sister to write you and maybe has some words of encouragement for you. the only protein she could stand was the isopure ...maybe connection between infection and the smell of powdered protein. dont know.

Does Dr. de la Torre allow you to eat mashed potatoes? We were told no "whites" - white potatoes, white bread, white rice, white sugar, white pasta, white flour. I think it is good to avoid those because most of those are the things that got us where we were before surgery. It is interesting that different doctors have different rules.
Hugs,
Lana

Dang Deb!  When it rains, it pours!  I wish I had something good to say but I have no clue.  You have had a he!! of a time with this.  Yes I cannot wait until next week either. 

Yes they told us one of things we could eat were mashed potatoes.  So not sure about that and all with it being a white.

Goodness Deb,

I'm so sorry you have had these issues.... my surgeon uses the drain tubes but he removes them BEFORE you leave the hospital!  For that I'm thankful!

I'm so sorry you are having these problems!  But am confident once you get thru this and down the road you will be right happy you had the surgery and be just as thrilled with all it has done for you like so many others are.... it's unfortunate that some have to go thru so much and others breeze by..... I wish we could all do the "breeze"!

I have been and will continue to pray the Lord ministers to you in a special way!  He's in that bi~nez you know!

bec