Painful Progress...

Well WWOM has been home for a week now and so far it's been okay. Her wound vac alarmed on Saturday night. What this means is if the bandage looses suction then an alarm goes off. WWOM worked on it for a while to see if she could get the leaking to stop. Finally she called the home health nurse who basically told her to take off her own wound vac and put on a wet to dry dressing. Keep in mind this is at 4 a.m. on Sunday morning. Luckily we have Mandy otherwise I am not sure what we would do. Mom got part of her wound vac off before calling Mandy to come help. Needless to say we were all livid at the home health care nurse and made sure her manager knew what she had done. Just make a mental note to yourself never to hurt WWOM or you will have a handful of very angry daughters coming after you.

WWOM had a follow up appointment with Dr. C this morning. Her retaining stitches are killing her, keep in mind if she is complaining it has to hurt something fierce. She was hoping he would take them out today but no such luck. He told her if he took them out she would hate him by the time she got home because everything would be falling out if you know what I mean. So she has to endure and keep the little buggers for four more weeks. She said she almost cried when he said they had to stay. It's so hard to watch her be in pain and know there is nothing that can be done. I truly admire her strength because if it was anyone else they would give up. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers that the pain can subsided and the next four weeks fly by.