Jean,
It's a weird situation. My last surgery will be three years ago this
January. The surgery was to put back together my two pieces of intestine
which were cut due to fistula's and major damage from the surgery where the
doctor nicked my bowel in several places. When I came home from the hospital
I had gotten an infection in the lower portion of my incision (it runs up and
down and is over 12" long) so it was left open and it was packed and unpacked
daily until it eventually healed. When this "abcess" thing started I had a
bump around the area where the incision was open before. I didn't think much
of it because I had recently lost 20 pounds and I thought that maybe this was
a chunk of scar tissue that was closer to the surface now that I had lost
some weight. But...it started getting bigger and hurting more so I went to
my doctor. He sent me for an ultrasound that the radiologist said was a
hernia, I knew it wasn't. So, the doctor said to come to his office the
following morning that I needed to see the surgeon to repair the "hernia" by
the next morning I could hardly sit up straight, the area was buldging and
red and hot to the touch...the doctor said,"I think the radiologist was
wrong"....no kidding. He called the surgeon and was told to put me on Cipro
and come see him in a week. The Cipro didn't do anything really and on
Monday morning I called and said I had to get in sooner. The surgeon lanced
the area and it drained out all kinds of stuff, it was unbelieveable. That
was six weeks ago, I'm still draining. He seems to think that there is a
stitch in there that didn't dissolve, I think he's wrong. He did say that
when I go back on the 24th if it's not better he will get a CT scan and do
something. My only problem with going to see someone else is that I am on an
HMO and he is the surgeon for my group. I don't know what else to do. I'm
anxious to see what he does this time.
With Love,
Lesa