Setbacks

By: brandy nicole on 4:07 PM

About 8 days post op i had a set back. I had just gotten out of the shower when I noticed an orange fluid on the towel when I wiped my back. I had my mom look at it and we discovered the top part of the incision on my right side was leaking. And it wasn't just a little either. I soaked through three large dressings in an hour. And I soaked through a double dressing, and my clothing on the hour drive to the hospitals ER. I was pretty much having an anxiety attack because after one of my what seems like gazillion surgeries for endometriosis, I had fluid that looked just like that leak from an incision and it turned out to be Staph (not MRSA).

After a lonnnnnnnnnng, and I mean long time in the ER it was determined it wasn't staph, but rather I had a pocket of fluid that had built up and it had just needed to come out. They put two stitches in the top of the incision and said they wouldn't be surprised if the bottom opened to. If it did, to put sterile dressings on it and leave it be unless it drained to the point where the top was. The top just wasn't stopping. And he felt they needed to stitch it up.

So sure enough, three days later, the bottom started leaking. It leaked pretty steady (but not to the velocity of the top part of the incision) for about 2 and a half days before it stopped. I was thankful I didn't have to go get stitches in the bottom because let me tell you, regular traditional stitches are a pain in the ass. They itch, they pull and get caught on things, and are just super, super obnoxious.

stitches and leaking :(