Getting closer

The antibiotic finished yesterday and the drain was removed today. I'm freeeee! I kept forgetting I had attachments when I'd go to get up.

Assuming all continues to go well I'll be out of here on Saturday.

Himself has rung me so many times today my head is spinning. The Mermaid rang me three times and Three rang and texted several times. I think I need to go home for a rest!

Himself will get the keys for the house tomorrow. Sadly it won't be til later in the day and Three and Sally will have already left so it will a lonely handover.

We have told the real estate agent that we will most likely see our lease out so the pressure is off a bit and we can move and unpack at our leisure and hope the weather gods will be kind and deliver the dry winter we were promised so the gardens can be installed.

So there we are. Not what I had planned but all will be fine. 

On the mend we hope.

My surgeon saw me yesterday afternoon and said he would do a "little tidy up" of the wound.

I went to theatre around lunchtime and had a washout and debridement. I now have 24 hour antibiotics going into my left arm and a drain coming out of my right leg. I fear I may end up like a tangled ball of yarn!

At least it has put an end to the waiting game that was the suction dressing. Now it's just a case of making sure all is going well and then I can be discharged.

I am hoping for Saturday as that works in best with the Mermaid but I think it might be Thursday or Friday which will interesting as I have nobody who can easily collect me.

No point worrying about it. If I have learnt anything over the past couple of weeks it's that sometimes one just has to suspend all plans and just go with the flow.

Still here

The wound is still draining so I am still here. We had discussed discharge tomorrow but it will at least be another day or so.

To be honest, bored and starved for fresh air as I am, I am in the right place.

I think I was a tad ambitious expecting to manage this any other way.

I could post pictures but you might be eating!

At least I have my kindle, my phone for podcasts and my knitting.

A mentioned to my nurse I had to ask Three to get me some shampoo and she gave me some hotel size bottles. The staff collect them when they stay in hotels for when patients forget ... or don't plan on long admissions!!

So my excitement tomorrow will be washing my hair.

It's the little things, folks!

Back

Not back here as such, but back in hospital.

Long story short, I ended up losing more fluid than my dressing could handle so came back up to Melbourne yesterday and was re-admitted today. A fancy sucky dressing in situ and if that doesn't work back to theatre on Friday. One of my sutures went AWOL so the wound opened a bit.

I'm in the best place, have no pain and am bored out of my mind but it could have been much worse. Main thing is not to get an infection.

At this stage he might let me out on Sunday and Three will take me home on Tuesday.

We get the keys to the house on 12th so I'd really like to be home for that!

Cool photo from the drive back yesterday.