So G is home now out of rehab walking every day in the church gym making laps. Shes been out a good 2 weeks now still weak but shes chugging along. Worry set in last Friday when we found out she had some “infection” where her incision is draining. Now, I put the word infection in quotes because they aren't certain what type it is, shes worried that its a staph infection. Of course they don't use that word its just a infection of some sort. HOW!! How can this be? The night before the surgery the poor thing was shaved, had to bath 3 times with a special soap. Then bathed again that morning and just before the surgery she was swabbed down with some yellow crap that is pealing off of her skin right now.
I asked her how this comes about and she said the tools used in the surgery were NOT cleaned properly. Why? Why would someone that is responsible for cleaning the surgical tools not be efficient in that one very important job? Now you say “Mark microorganisms are some times hard to clean”, sure I accept that. But I would be damn sure they were cleaned, my gosh the woman was contorted to some finger numbing shape to let the doctor get to crack open her chest and worked on for over 5 hours. Sat in that hospital nearly three weeks being poked and prodded in pain only to find out the tools to work on her weren't properly cleaned. She was an RN in her younger years and she told of all the steps the scrub nurse had to do to clean the tools in her day. Lots of steps are involved, she also said it was rare to hear of a infection after the surgery.
I'm mad that G is now going to an infectious/disease doctor every morning for the next two weeks to get an IV full of antibiotics pumped into her. Its also the fact that the hospital there is full of other patients....does this mean they had the same problem? Does this mean the surgical instruments used on them weren't cleaned properly as well?
The first night the concoction made her sick, so the next morning she had to request another type to be used. She goes in at eight thirty every morning and is out by ten. Two weeks of this daily treatment even on Christmas day. I'm grateful to have her with us on the holidays but not too happy about these latest events..... we will see where this leads us....
Sunday, December 19
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