Nov. 19th Woohoo got 1 of my 2 drains out !!!
I might get the
other out Wednesday?
For those who don’t know,
when you have a mastectomy, they install and stitch two tubes in place. These
drain the lymphatic fluids from under my arm (since 13 of my lymph nodes were
removed ) and keep fluid from my surgical area.
And now the breast wall has to
heal and everything adhere back together. So they want minimal fluid staying
there.
The tubes are 6 or 7 inches in under your skin. First few days you don’t
mind them too much….but after a week and two weeks of lugging the tubes and the bladders around,
dressing around them, draining them, and just being there, they get very
irritating.
It’s like your body knows it has 2 foreign objects in....
and your body
wants it OUT.
Let’s just say if my body could talk….it was YELLING at me.
My body was annoyed, agitated and sore.
It smarted when the nurse pulled it out. But yet - felt so good. Can’t
wait to get the second one out.
It’s the small things – you learn to appreciate !
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