After yesterday morning's drama, I thought everything was taken care of. Silly me! We went grocery shopping mid-afternoon, and on the return, I discovered that the drain (s) must have clogged again because my clothes were all bloody again. I called the on-call physician who advised me to keep "milking" the drains and moving clots along the tubing, and to change the dressing as needed. But even after serveral attempts to unclog the tubing, the bleeding continued. We went to the local ER. Unfortunately the doctor there did not have the background to advise me. So after vitals were checked and a blood draw, they packed us off to the hospital in Nashua where the surgery had been done.
We arrived there at about 8:30. By 10:30, it was determined that the drains were---drumroll-----clogged with clots. The doctor tried to flush one of the drains with saline, and after that, there was no draining at all. The nurse replaced the other bulb and got it to drain acceptably. Bottom line is that I have instructions to go back to my surgeon today.
This morning it appears that the one drain is working, even though I did have some "seepage" overnight.
And I thought that surgery was going to be the piece of cake part of this whole process!
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