I wish I had a picture of it because you would be sick. Last night, I was getting ready for bed, Mom looked at my port site from a distance. "It looks a little crusty". I glanced at it and said "No, I just cleaned it yesterday", then I took a closer look and it did look a little crusty. So I pushed on my chest just above it and green puss poured out of it! I was shocked I just stared at it for a while. Then Mom came to the rescue. "Call Denver, we have to go to the ER."
Not a lot of action, they did an iv, blood culture, wound culture, and gram stain. The stain is all we have back... the rest takes 72 hours, and it said there were no living organisms, the white blood cell count was high, and there were a few red blood cells. I got discharged at 2am. (Poor Mom!)
Well, when I was discharged, the nurse said that the PH dr on call would leave a message for my dr and he would call me in the morning. Well, I haven't heard from my dr by the time I woke up, so I call. No one told my nurse. *face palm* I tell her everything and she is supposed to talk to the dr and call me back later today.
*insert under heading BONUS on the "Living with Mom" list*
ReplyDeleteThank you for not taking a picture.