My first post-op appointment was Monday.
The doctors said the incisions all looked good and they removed 3 of my
4 drains. The pathology report wasn’t in yet but we should have it by the end
of the week. I went by the clinic today
and had the final drain removed.
In case you don’t know what drains are, because I didn’t, about 8 inches
of tube was inserted into my abdomen and breasts, 4 total, to collect the fluid
that fills open spaces in the body. Outside
of my body the tubes (about 18 inches of tube per drain) were connected to
these bulb things that the tubes would drain fluid into. The first night in the hospital the drains
were stripped, or emptied, every hour. The second night, every 2 hours, the
third night every 4 hours and we’ve stripped them twice a day since I came home
(I was very happy to get 3 out at my first post op appt!). I document the amount of fluid and once the
amount is low enough the doctors remove the drains. It’s pretty gross but also pretty amazing how
the body works and how the doctors have everything figured out. I had no idea how long the tubes were until
they said they were taking them out and I didn’t feel a thing.
I have a post op appointment tomorrow with Dr Jones. He did the mastectomy part of my surgery and
removed the lymph nodes and will hopefully have the pathology report from the
lymph node removal. We are obviously praying
for good news and will try to update the blog quickly once we get those
results.
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