Recovery Day 73

Over the last week his drain has gotten cloudier and cloudier in the output. While the output has decreased from 60 ml a day to now closer to 30 ml, the amount and cloudiness is concerning to us. Yesterday was 2 weeks since the drain was put in. They had hoped for only 10-14 days but with the output level, there is no end in sight. 

Christmas morning I noticed a spot on his incision that looked like it it had been rubbed raw or blistered. We snapped pictures and used a bandage and some of the antibiotic ointment that was leftover from when he came home. It got worse Monday and Tuesday to where it looked like it had infected fluid bubbling out of it. We snapped more pictures and sent them to the team, expressing our concerns. 

Wednesday around lunch time, Thuy, Dr. You's nurse responded and said the docs were all out but Karen, Dr. Fournier's PA could see him at 10 on Thursday. We jumped on it. And then the plastics doc's nurse called later in the afternoon and offered Friday but really wanted to see more pictures. We stuck with meeting with Karen today. 

This morning we drove down just after rush hour to what feels like our second home. Got princess parking on my favorite floor of Garage 10. The GI Clinic on floor 7 at Elevator A was an empty floor, literally empty. Daniella, Dr. Wise One's nurse got to us right away. 

Karen isn't sure exactly sure what is going on with the incision issue. She thinks it could be another fat necrosis pocket or his body reacting to one of the deep sutures or the infection but she hopeful it's not that. She wants us to watch it closely. The cloudiness of the drain output she is also hopeful is the dredges of the fluid pocket. 

Alan started back walking Monday after feeling bad or about 2.5 weeks so. Karen thinks that his walking is helping get all the junk out of there. Since Alan is still having some UTI symptoms, Karen ordered another urinalysis and urine culture. Since today was the last day of his current antibiotic, she refilled it until we know if something other than Augmentin would work better. 

So for now we wait. We wait on the infection to get better. We wait to see if the incision site gets worse. We wait to get the drain out. We wait on the fevers to stop. We wait on him to be able to sit normal. We wait on him to not need assistance with normal activities. We wait on complete healing. We wait on God's timing.