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Diep surgery recovery
hi everyone I’m having double mastectomy and diep reconstruction in about 3 weeks and I was wondering if anyone could give some insight into recovery and how they managed once at home from hospital ...
Well my plan to spend the afternoon working on a chores roster has been derailed by the ongoing saga of my abdominial incision infections.
After two weeks of doing as instructed by the PS, expressing the lesions at shower time and then applying Betadine, they are no better. In fact I think they're worse. There was a huge pus, blood & fluid explosion from one last Friday, and today, the other one has gooped all over my undies. Gross. There's a new dark spot, and the red areas are growing.
So I emailed photos to the PS. The receptionist calls me back & says come in at 3.45pm today. It's the only time he can see me until next week. At that time of day it's going to be a 2.5hr round trip. There are four kids coming home from school and dinner to prepare! So I said no. So the receptionist spoke to the nurse and relayed the message to go see a GP.
Can't get in for ages to see either of the two GPs I regularly see, so now my husband is heading home to spend the rest of the day working here and I'm slogging into the inner city.
I am so fed up with this healing problem. It hurts, it's messy and it's depressing. Garrgh :#
After two weeks of doing as instructed by the PS, expressing the lesions at shower time and then applying Betadine, they are no better. In fact I think they're worse. There was a huge pus, blood & fluid explosion from one last Friday, and today, the other one has gooped all over my undies. Gross. There's a new dark spot, and the red areas are growing.
So I emailed photos to the PS. The receptionist calls me back & says come in at 3.45pm today. It's the only time he can see me until next week. At that time of day it's going to be a 2.5hr round trip. There are four kids coming home from school and dinner to prepare! So I said no. So the receptionist spoke to the nurse and relayed the message to go see a GP.
Can't get in for ages to see either of the two GPs I regularly see, so now my husband is heading home to spend the rest of the day working here and I'm slogging into the inner city.
I am so fed up with this healing problem. It hurts, it's messy and it's depressing. Garrgh :#