Infection :( (by sarah)
Yesterday the Dr came to see me - this was scheduled anyway which was just as well as the night before after posting that everything was fine I noticed my wound was smelling 🙁 Just a bit - when I went to wash it. By the time the Dr got here it was reeking even though I have cleaned it and dried it twice. She looked at it and said there was redness again - but this time it is down around the wound which I can not myself see 🙁
I had felt it was still infected but I'd been showing it to Al and it had looked fine. She's prescribed me two lots of antibiotics which Al went and got straight away. The redness had grown by the time he came back with them - it appears to have shrunk a little bit today - he drew a line around it but when I wash the wound it washes off so we have taken to photographing it instead to try and keep track of it.
I feel this is a set back - I feel well ill to be honest - the fluey-ness is worse and I have developed mouth ulcers. If there is no proper improvement by tomorrow the Dr will come back out but I fear if that happens it's going to be hospital for intraveinous antibiotics plus I really don't like the idea of an infection that is making tens of cm2 of my skin red and hot - it is too close to septacimia and childbed fever - sometimes I think it was a bad idea to have looked into the bits of biology I have.
On top of that I had to phone my mum and tell her that even though her swabs came back clear I now had another wound infection and she needed to tell her Dr before she has her next lumpectomy. They are sending her the body wash you get if your swabs are positive - just in case.
I just feel slightly hacked off that I always get complications :/ Why does nothing ever heal properlly or why is it always me that gets ill or injured - just a bit of self pitty floating around my head. I think partly the issue is that I was looking forward to things being not a painful and to going out in the car - now the wound is burning like fire or spiking and suddenly all I really want to do is sleep and rest again :/
Tue 15th Feb 2011 10:48 pm 
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By Helen Stevens, Tue 15th Feb 2011 @ 11:16 pm
I hope that you feel better soon and that the wound heals up nicely! Love Helen.