I'M Back In The Hospital!
As many of you know I have been dealing with the recover from my surgery for the past two months, This has required me to have a nurse come to my house, and since I have been at work I have had to go into Kaiser every single day to have a wound packed and changed. There have been ongoing issues. Most of these issues have been from the nurses not knowing how to pack a wound and doing it incorrectly.
My nurse on Saturday packed it wrong and put too much packing in the wound. With there being too much packing in the wound, the bacteria did not get a chance to come out it just sat there in the wound and they think the bacteria grew into the wound. So Monday I started to feel very sick and had a fever, chills, and aches. My doctor then wanted me to come in and we did a CT Scan and blood tests. After all of those tests he still could not figure out what was going wrong with me exactly so I got admitted to the hospital.
When they admitted me they hooked me up to IV antibiotics throughout the day. Sadly this did not seem to work. They were pumping the antibiotics but my fever still stuck around and even got worse. It got all the way up to 102.6 this was not good and I was getting irritated, scared and nervous.
Today, Wednesday Morning, my surgeon took me down to surgery and cut the wound open more and then cleaned it out. Basically he power washed my wound. He thinks that he was able to find out where the infection was coming from so that is good. Since I have been back in my room I have feel like my fever was gone but we will just have to wait and see. I have been here at the hospital since Monday night and looks like I am not going home till Thursday at the earliest. I think that we are ready to be somewhat normal and not have to deal with all these illnesses. This one has taken its emotional toll on me and I have had a few breakdowns. Luckily I have had many people to lean on. I appreciate every one's support and I will work on keeping up with my blog more and making sure that you all have the most updated information. Thank you again for everything.
