Hale House Adventures

So it happened. My healing wasn’t going as well as I had thought. I woke up this morning in puddles of blood and drainage fluid. It would be such a big issue if My drain was still in. But instead it is leaking through my wounds. And when I say leaking, I am legit making puddles. I don’t even know how to make it to the bathroom because there is so much. I made it. I left an easy trail to follow. The even more astounding part of this is I had a bandage on my leg but I had leaked enough that was saturated and was doing NOTHING. This was not how I wanted to start the day.

I decided to take a shower to try and get clean. I also thought this may allow all the built up fluid time and opportunity to drain. It did but as soon as I tried to get out of the shower more puddles. That’s when I sat down and wrapped the leg up again enough to dry up. Then I realized it was so MUCH worse than I was thinking.

My incision on my right leg had opened and looked infected. I’m no expert and have very minimal (none) training. But I knew this wasn’t good. I realized that I needed to see the dr sooner rather than later. But I didn’t realize how sooner it would be. I ended up starting to vomit during breakfast, not even able to keep drink down. Then I checked my temperature and I was running a low grade fever. So off to ER we went.

I was in the triage very quickly. I answered all the questions as honestly as I could. Nick helped with the questions I wasn’t sure on. Then the nurse said “well I have a higher level care room opening in the next few minutes because you are going to need some extra care”. Great!!! Ugh!! Does that mean extra care iv or extra care admission? I’m supposed to be on the road home right now.

It did mean extra car iv almost immediately. And they immediately started the bloodwork to determine if I am septic. Wow!! This progressed quickly. And I’m currently in ultrasound being scanned for blood clots. So much for a carefree Sunday drive back home from spring break. My bloodwork is currently being run to determine how sick I really am. Just a waiting game now.