Well my wound is not infected and home health discharged me last week. I am still feeling good and i'm gaining strength everyday. I will be going back to see Dr. Safar at the end of May. In other news we made it through a birthday party and wedding Saturday. Two weddings, a wedding shower, a graduation, and a visit with a special friend to go. This month is so unbelievably crazy!

I have been feeling mostly good. The wound vac was taken off Thursday. It probably could have been put on one more time but my wound is getting to small it was getting hard to get the sponge in and it was sticking so it was also hard to get it out. The problem now is I think there may be some infection in there. Home health will be out tomorrow to look at it. My next doctors appointment is may 30 so it looks like my next surgery won't be until late summer.

I got my wound vac put on Thursday and the nurse changed it today. It will probably be off by Thursday because it is already getting to small for it. Now that the drain is gone i rarely have to take pain med so things are improving!

I survived without sidation again. They ended up pulling the drain and was able to get the bleeding to stop so let the healing begin.

I am still in a good amount of pain from the drain. We got a little worried about it Saturday night due to some swelling and pain on the left side of the drain. We ended up calling home health to see what they thought we should do. She called interventional radiology for us who said if i started running a fever go to the hospital immediately but I could wait if there wasn't a fever. The nurse offered to come out and look at it but said she probably couldn't tell us anything without a ct scan. So i decided to wait to see the nurse today then i have my appointment tomorrow so i can last until then.

I knew it was going to hurt for awhile after that drain was placed but this is intense. Yesterday it took me forever to get out of bed then last night i discovered i was almost out of pain killers so I decided to just take one and i could stretch them out and mom could go get me some this morning. I was suppose to go to my parents to eat but after changing clothes I decided not only did i need another pill but there was no way i was going to be able to get back off the couch. Mom quit cooking dinner and went to wal-mart so i would have my pills this morning. Tuesday cannot come fast enough because it should be ready to pull.

Things have been going well since i have been home. Home health is set up to come once or twice a week just to make sure nothing is getting infected again because i can't see the bottom of the wound. Today i went for a follow up with radiology and the surgeon. I thought they were just going to pull the drain and be done with it. Instead they decided to pull it and replace it with a slightly larger one. No i was not asleep for it i just had a local that did not last long enough . Needless to say it hurt a lot. Also when they took out the first drain it started bleeding. They concluded when the first one got put in they went through a vein but the tube kept me from bleeding out. This would also explain why my blood counts dropped after it was placed. I have to go back on Tuesday to have the drain checked. They will probably pull it so if it bleeds again they will have to go in and stop it so I will get to spend the night again. Next I got to see Dr. Safar. He is happy about radiology's plan. He also decided it might be a good idea to get a wound vac again. I'm not sure why he just now decided to put one on but I am happy about it because it will be less dressing changes and faster healing.