Back to the ER
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nwhikerSo. When they discharged AC yesterday, the nurse noted that she was still oozing quite a bit and told us to keep an eye on it. He gave us more gauze to add more layers if needed.
Last night was ok, pain-wise, thank you all the gods of pain management. She got some good sleep, which was great. Dh and I... well, maybe NSM, LOL.
That said, we found out this morning that she'd bled through her bandage, a doubled-over heavy bathtowel, a pillowcase, an into a pillow, so quite a bit of serosanguinous ooze. Her wrapping appeared to be pretty much pink-to-red for most of the leg.
A note on the wrapping: she isn't supposed to remove it for a freaking week. Well, it was done Tues and her post-op is Monday, but really, ew?
Anyhow, we called the surgeon's office and they had nobody to see her, so sent us to the ER at UW. OMG, what a nasty claustrophobic place! Everyone was really nice and seemed very competent, but the rooms were dark, closed-in, and really really old and small. And underground. It was the closed-in thing that I found hard, being stuck for almost three hours in a room barely bigger than many walk-in closets. But good people. Which is the important thing.
We were warned when we got there that they had Covid + people in the ER. They also had two people who were probably on psych holds because they were both screaming that they wanted to leave and other bits of nastiness.
Anyhow, they agreed that it was a bit much oozing, and unwrapped her. They had barely wrapped anything, it was just gobs of gauze shoved haphazardly shoved here and there to try to contain the oozing. Which it did. Until it didn't.
We saw the resident, then the attending, then the resident came back to re-wrap her, a bit more efficiently and neatly. Nobody said why there was so much oozing, but everyone agreed that it didn't seem to be cause for concern, except that she definitely needed new dressings because there was no way the ones she had would have been useful for the next 5 days. Even as she lay there, she was leaking. They put a bunch of holes in my baby and didn't shut them properly, damnit! :P Oh, and the liquid was kinda bubbling out.
They had her NPO, so dh and I both went to the hospital in case they needed to open the knee up to drain anything. Poor dh couldn't get in, so he... had to go get himself a burrito at this place and eat looking out at the water.
I ordered Chux pads from amazon while at the ER... my reasoning being that it would be a $12 and change insurance against having to go back. Since she hadn't stopped oozing when we left, they did warn us that it was possible she'd need to come back in, or to call the surgeon again. We'll see. I just figure that if I order the Chux pads, she wouldn't need them, LOL.
Went home, and it's felt a bit strange all day. Time spent in hospitals really messes with your mind, even if you aren't the patient, I think. I know about ICU psychosis, and it's nothing near as awful as that, but enough time in a hospital and you really do start to feel a disconnect. Or at least I do.
Last night was ok, pain-wise, thank you all the gods of pain management. She got some good sleep, which was great. Dh and I... well, maybe NSM, LOL.
That said, we found out this morning that she'd bled through her bandage, a doubled-over heavy bathtowel, a pillowcase, an into a pillow, so quite a bit of serosanguinous ooze. Her wrapping appeared to be pretty much pink-to-red for most of the leg.
A note on the wrapping: she isn't supposed to remove it for a freaking week. Well, it was done Tues and her post-op is Monday, but really, ew?
Anyhow, we called the surgeon's office and they had nobody to see her, so sent us to the ER at UW. OMG, what a nasty claustrophobic place! Everyone was really nice and seemed very competent, but the rooms were dark, closed-in, and really really old and small. And underground. It was the closed-in thing that I found hard, being stuck for almost three hours in a room barely bigger than many walk-in closets. But good people. Which is the important thing.
We were warned when we got there that they had Covid + people in the ER. They also had two people who were probably on psych holds because they were both screaming that they wanted to leave and other bits of nastiness.
Anyhow, they agreed that it was a bit much oozing, and unwrapped her. They had barely wrapped anything, it was just gobs of gauze shoved haphazardly shoved here and there to try to contain the oozing. Which it did. Until it didn't.
We saw the resident, then the attending, then the resident came back to re-wrap her, a bit more efficiently and neatly. Nobody said why there was so much oozing, but everyone agreed that it didn't seem to be cause for concern, except that she definitely needed new dressings because there was no way the ones she had would have been useful for the next 5 days. Even as she lay there, she was leaking. They put a bunch of holes in my baby and didn't shut them properly, damnit! :P Oh, and the liquid was kinda bubbling out.
They had her NPO, so dh and I both went to the hospital in case they needed to open the knee up to drain anything. Poor dh couldn't get in, so he... had to go get himself a burrito at this place and eat looking out at the water.
I ordered Chux pads from amazon while at the ER... my reasoning being that it would be a $12 and change insurance against having to go back. Since she hadn't stopped oozing when we left, they did warn us that it was possible she'd need to come back in, or to call the surgeon again. We'll see. I just figure that if I order the Chux pads, she wouldn't need them, LOL.
Went home, and it's felt a bit strange all day. Time spent in hospitals really messes with your mind, even if you aren't the patient, I think. I know about ICU psychosis, and it's nothing near as awful as that, but enough time in a hospital and you really do start to feel a disconnect. Or at least I do.
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Date: 10 Sep 2021 02:15 (UTC)Oh, and now I want to go to that burrito place, for the menu as much as the view!
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Date: 10 Sep 2021 15:52 (UTC)Also, whenever. Get a flight for you and M, I'll pick you up at the airport. Seriously, we'd love to have you, there are beautiful places to run, and it would be fun!