Drain, Drain, go away . . .

I still have the same tubing that I woke up from surgery with.  It started off with the little squeezy ball and bag, they told me once it dropped to below 100mm a day they would shorten it.  It went down to 70mm for 2 days after nearly three weeks, so they cut the long tube off and attached a sticky sealed plastic bag thingy to my side, over the hole and the drain itself.  However ever since it has been back up well over 100mm a day.  The bag has a little 'tap' thing at the bottom, so I have to empty it and measure the output.  The sticky bag gets changed once every 12-14 days.  I have to stay on antibiotics until it comes out.  The skin around it is kind of all peeled off and gross.  Just changed it today (it was starting to come off)  Only trouble is if you dont get it positioned exactly right, it tends to pull or push on the stitch that is holding the drain into the wound.  Needless to say we have buggered it up a bit today.  So waiting to see if the pain settles overnight, or it I need to go back and have it professionally changed.  It's not that hard to change really, you just must have to have a knack for doing it.   So here I am whinging again, Im sure my husband is sick of it.  Every time I move, sit, stand, lay, whatever I'm catching my breath as it either pulls or pushes on the stupid drain.  My surgeon doesnt seem the least bit worried about it.  Maybe the drain is a good distraction, if I didnt have it to whinge about, I might be more worried about my chemo side effects!  They say there is an up side to everything.  I'm sorry to moan and groan, promise to make no more comments unless I have something good to say.