After yesterday’s letdown (hearing that the JP drains needed to stay in until daily output was under 20cc), this morning’s harvest yielded only about 5cc of – uh – “exudate”. (My new vocabulary word of the week)
After a quick call to Dr. Marble’s office to say we think we met the “low output” metric, we got the question: “How soon can you come in?”.. I said: “We could maybe be there in about a half hour?”, and then looked over at Tracy and started to ask if that was ok, but she was already getting up to go brush her teeth, and comb her hair. She was most definitely ok with the half hour timeline.
No more drain stripping, no more drain care, no more Mr. Plumber…
If you are interested, either a) google “Jackson Pratt Drain”, or if you are *not squeamish* - at all - b) go to YouTube.com and search for the same term. I guess being in the line of work that I am that I should not be surprised as what people post online – but…
Suffices to say – Tracy is VERY happy to be done with these medieval things, and so am I.
Bill "BC" P.
I should know by now not to look at videos that Bill posts as *squeamish*, but alas my intrigue of medicine has overruled once again. After watching a video on the Jackson-Pratt draining process I am thrilled to hear that yours is gone! Keep healing and getting healthy! I am becoming a master chef at school now, so I'll make sure to make you a delicious meal to make you feel better when I get home. (I guess I can make extra for Bill too)
ReplyDelete