After surgery to remove a grade 2 lump from my right breast along with level 3 axillary lymph node clearance I thought I was doing rather well. How wrong can you be?!
I was up and about doing things without thinking I was still being shielded by all the stuff that had been pumped into me during the op and although my underarm was rather dark, rock hard and swollen as well as being numb in places I thought that was to be expected (well, it is, to some extent early on).
However it got worse and worse and then yesterday when I changed my dressings a lot of fluid came pouring out of one of my wounds and I had to put on three dressings in the same spot. Then I thought it might be infected and rang my MacMillan nurse who told me to go to A&E immediately ( I was convalescing at my friend’s job n another town).
Friend promptly drove me to the local hospital, I was seen by a foctor within 45 minutes and I was asked if I wanted to to stay in hospital as I had an infection in the wound. I thought oh dear, it must be bad! However I decided to take the antibiotics back home with me and I started the course immediately. The this morning I got up awash with more fluid and friend rushed out to buy dressings, cleaned me up and applied them. I am really hoping this works as am a bit fed up!
Anybody else out there having the same issues? I’m prepared to admit I did ask for the drain to be taken out before going to my friend’s which might have been too soon but it was under the 40ml cutoff point!
