Another (surprise) Surgery!
I'm writing from my parent's house again (this time without kids or pets)! Yesterday morning I went in to my surgeon's office for a prescheduled check on my remaining abdominal drain. The evening before I was feeling hot (standard with my hormone therapy meds) and I was also having some pain (like a side ache from running but both sides and worse). I couldn't stand straight. I went to bed early and woke even worse and with a low-grade fever. My drain output was higher than normal. My mom drove me to my appointment and I explained what was going on. The nurse called in the surgeon who looked at everything and decided to re-open my abdomen and clean it out and put in a new drain because it looked to be the start of an infection. Sigh. My mom and I then waited in the office (iv fluids and pain meds for me because I could hardly walk) from 10:30 a.m. -3:15 p.m. until my in-office surgery could start because I had eaten that morning, not knowing I would be having surgery. I ...