Oh My Stoma, How you Delight Me

I haven’t blogged in a while, and not because I didn’t have anything to “report” on but mostly due to sheer laziness.
I continue to have problems with my stoma, with my attempts at intermittent catheterisations tending to fail within a day or two of the foley being removed. Back in mid-August Dr Herschorn removed the [...]

Adventures in Healthcare

Well, I got sick again. Blast this decrepit body!
I went to Emergency on July 17th at 2am with severe abdominal pain. I was in ER for a few hours and was prescribed Macrobid by the ER doctor – a certain Dr J Thurger. I was sent home, hopped up on morphine. A few hours later [...]

Nearly a year Ago

… I had my big uber surgery. I will be having a little drink with friends next weekend to celebrate my surviving the surgery.
A lot of changes have gone on in my life in the past 18 months – the surgery being one of them. Another was losing my job at Airmiles. I admit I [...]

Stoma

I have decided to go “commando” with my stoma – that means that at night I do not put any dressing over the stoma. Lately I’ve been having a problem with chafed skin, sometimes breaking. I put this down to the MUKO (surgical jelly which has an alcohol base) and the StomaCare wipes I use…plus [...]

My Hole

Kim, my nurse, showed up today to check on any potential damage done to my hole while I was away on holidays.
Good news! The hole is closed and Kim will be discharging me this coming Friday.
Huzzah!

The Hole

Kim measured it today and I now have to share the happy news – which hopefully should make Geeklawyer sigh with relief and gratitude.
The hole has gone from 1.8cm to 1.2c in the space of a week.
If I didn’t jiggle too much I would be prancing about like a fairy.

Kim, my nurse

… she is sick. She was all shivery last night, while doing my dressing. I am a little concerned as her next visit was to an ER to get herself taken care of. She couldn’t visit me on Saturday for the dressing – she had such severe stomach cramps, claiming she might have food poisoning, [...]

Wound Care Nurse, part deux

I have received the report from the Wound Care Nurse, who came early last week to assess my “hole” and recommend any different course of treatment.
What I have to do is take multivitamins (already doing that), vitamin C (will start doing that) and zinc (will start doing that). What my nurse has to do is [...]

Wound Care Nurse

Huzzah! I have an appointment on Monday for a Wound Care Nurse to take a look at my wee little hole that refuses, rather stubbornly, to close.
Hopefully she can recommend a treatment program for the hole so that it can close much more quickly.
I swear, the pace of closure of this pesky hole is slower [...]

Hole

damn it, it’s still 1.8cm.
Geeklawyer, Ruthie, Cantrell – be prepared! Looks like I might be needing help with the dressing.