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Infection following surgery
It's 4 weeks on from surgery for aux dissection (had aux clearance & lumpectomy 4 years ago) and after a teary, painful weekend saw my GP who has given me antibiotics and pain relief medication for in...
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Hi @lrb_03 thanks for checking in - and for all the good advice of others. Things really happened when I phoned the complaints dept at the hospital, I was strongly encouraged to go back to the surgeon, who immediately sent me to Emergency where I was admitted. It is cellulitis and being Fri afternoon was able to have ultrasound and fluid drained (with local anaesthetic) and put on IV antibiotics until results of culture. Improvement happened with IV, no bugs found in culture, so then changed to oral antibiotics. Discharged home today. BCN phoned and visited on Monday am, both BCN's had been away for a week at a conference but hadn't changed VM. There was an apology. Complaints person phoned today to follow up (she used to work in infection control, so knew what she was on about) and I was able to report all has been resolved. (Touch wood) :)