minor setback......

Nov 14, 2008

 I was going along like gangbusters - had actually been cleared to go back to the gym for light treadmill work - which felt great - just smelling the gym made me happy!!!!!    I had a regularly scheduled reeval on Wednesday - I thought everything looked pretty good - well - it actually all looked pretty bad but the healing looked normal! LOL......I had been very wiped out the day before (Tuesday) with the worst energy crash since coming home from the hospital - but I had picked up a GI bug so I attributed it to that.......

Well - the surgeon looked at one spot along the suture line and said - dont like this - and pressed hard and I exploded - a seroma - pocket of fluid - was forming and this one was already on it's way to being infected......that didn't take long!   He had to open up the suture line - clean out the channel in both directions (damn near died!)....and then pack the wound - and now I'm unpacking and repacking it twice a day and on a walloping dose of antibiotics.  I had it checked yesterday - it was still pretty juicy and gooey - but it was only 36 hours into the antiobiotic - and when I unpacked it this morning - gritting my teeth like hell! - I can see that it's better.....slowly better.........so - I've been grounded.....and am sleeping a lot - and just trying to be good - actually the pain was bad enough that any thoughts of the gym were simply out.    THanks to everybody for the good wishes.....I'll post pictures next week when things are a little further along........Susan

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