Hello All~
Just a little update on my face, & an appeal for prayers to get this mess staightened out!! Apparently, I have or am in throws of getting an infection in my incision on my cheek. Not a horrible thing...and hopefully nothing that can't be fixed, but just more time & effort. I go to the Dr. this afternoon at 2:15 (finally got one to look at it after 3 tries -- no one would look at it - one said I should go back to the doc that did it!) and hopefully he can get done what needs to be done or send me to the Wound Care Center here. I spoke to Dr. Byrne (love that man! really think he was home sick!) and he said that it sounds like I need to "fluid drain" put in. Near as I can remember (& the pieces I wrote down), that is "new gauze soaked in sterile saline" that I think will be changed either daily or a couple of times a day. The places where the fluid are draining are tiny and I asked him how they would get it in there and he told me that they will probably have to "open those up a bit." I can't feel anything on that side, which I consider a type of blessing considering all the trouble I have had w/ that eye & the work I have had to have on that side over the years, but does pose a problem since I can't tell how bad it is hurting. I just don't really feel that great and have a headache (a sign for me that something is not right) -- I had been feeling really good!
) Dr. Byrne said that out of all these that they have done, they have only had ONE person have any troubles,at all, & that was at the first before they took your own tendon from your leg. They used a synthetic material in the lip and they attributed the infection to that - guess I dispproved that!! Anyway, I told him that if something could go wrong, it would be with me!! LOL!!!
So basically, it sounds like they will be reopening my incision, packing it, and I will be on some pretty strong antibiotics -- again, nothing like say...brain surgery, or anything...but please keep me in your prayers none the less -- I have 3 girlies (& a sweet hubby) I need to be up for!!
K
