Drain output, gross description something's wrong I think.

Kcmc

Thank you. Checked it out. Although mine is more then strings. It's pieces and now the fluid is thick.It looks like I'm getting liposuction out my tubing. Very gross.

Homecare Nurse says she has never seen anything like it before.It's not the tissue that bothers me as much as it's discoloring  the fluid and making it look infected but I show no other signs of infection. Homecare nurse talked to in call surgeon and they said it sounds like it can wait to be looked at tommorow when I go for my follow up appt.Even the soreness and itchyness I been feeling recently was due to the wrong sized surgical bra.

I felt some deep soreness yesterday and the bra felt really tight and I had thought that they changed the bra size up in surgery and I had swelled up a lot  and that they didn't freaking tell me AT ANY POINT so I could change the size of my back up so my second bra is too small and it also now has a stain from marker ( I can't reach all the places yet with a cloth) And then I just checked, the bra size in the bra and on the box are totally different but I talked to the nurse helping me and she says they are unlikely to change it due to the mark. So once again I pay the price for someone else's mistake.Everything happened so last minute due to lost paperwork I just washed/air dried them and put them back in the box and then it was surgery time.

Just once I wish something would go right for me and just STAY THAT WAY.

The aching and even the itching once I changed to the larger size faded so it was the constriction causing the extra soreness issues I was having.

The only way around it I can think of is change to the smaller size for the amount of time it takes to hand wash and fan dry the big sized one so I'm only wearing it a few hours.

To me it looks like fat tissue like from a liposuction mixed in with bloody drain fluid.

So here's my expensive word of warning to others. Double and triple check to make sure the size on the box and the size on the actual product match.

Thanks for responses.

Kista

I suspect there is a complication where I am concerned, whether it is infection or something else I will find out tommorow.

When you got two nurses saying that's something they haven't seen before you know the news isn't likely to be good though so for now it's wait and see until I get checked tommorow.

Egads007

Thanks.Trying to keep my mind off it by killing time but it's hard when you look at the tube and you see sludge instead of fluid. Something is coming out of my body that shouldn't be.its also getting to the point I no longer want to touch the drains due to how disgusting the right side has become.

With my luck I got a faulty implant.

I'm also passing way more fluid in the right side then I should be at almost a week later and it's not a normal color at all.

I'm hoping this doesn't end in me heartbroken but hope has always been a useless thing for me.

Egads007 

Thanks.

It's so so news I guess, they say everything looks good with healing she was actually impressed by how good considering it's been only a week.( I wouldn't know I couldn't bring myself to look) but they are sending the fluid in the questionable drain in for a test to see what is going on. She thinks it's fat tissue but it's a lot more then What they are used to. I go back again this week and they will have the culture ready then to see if it's infection.i don't have cellulitis or any other signs of infection so if it is it's early stages. She put polysporin in the drain sites because my body being my  dang body the skin has decided it really don't like them and has become very red and irritated. Also she just put steristrips instead of strips and bandages and we are using loose abdominal pads to protect my chest in the surgical bra because as per usual my skin rejects the adhesive in the bandages.

Sadly the drain on the other side that should have come out today decided to double the amount allowable in a 12 hour period so these damned tubes are still inside me. Looks like it might be another week.i stay on antibiotics another week just to be safe.

So right now it's closely watch, wait and see.

Puzzlewoman

Thanks.I'm so desperate to scratch sometimes but I can't.

Hapa

Thanks.Some has gone down. Pretty much it's been "chunky" for 3 days now but the liquid amount is barely going down it stays just above the allowable removal number on one side so I don't know what is going on. I also think one of the drains is literally dangling like a thread( the one just a scootch over) it looks like it's going to come out on its own. So if they are keeping it in longer like I think( probably Tuesday) they are going to have to do something about that. I can barely look at any of it right now but what little I do see in the right is getting bluish I hope it's bleeding and not skin dying.i am at the point where I just want these dang drains out of me. One of them popped open today, I guess it caught on the blanket, and it was only pure luck that had me hear it in time to make sure it didn't spill. I also want to be able to go out somewhere and not look like a kangaroo with a joey stuffed in my front.

Drains still in Monday for sure maybe even to wensday.

Kcmc

Thanks. I appreciate it.

I think it's just starting to be overwhelming for me, they pulled the almost last minute thing for surgery date, then they put the surgery on hold day of without letting me know until I went to nuclear medicine and they asked what the hell I was doing there since everything was put on hold, then I end up getting a full on cold day I am released so not only am I dealing with the aftermath of surgery I'm dealing with illness AND my monthly cycle all at the same time. Now these damn drains won't stop draining so I can get them removed. I'm so restricted in movement and strength I can't even do a simple grocery run across the street to pick up a couple items. 

And now there is this bedbug incident which I hope is just a paranoid neighbor who doesn't know his bugs.

It's at the point where I'm constantly muttering "when is it enough?! When is it going to end?!" Over and over. And I haven't even seen the oncologist yet but at this point  I don't feel like fighting anymore to stay alive in this hell.so chemo is mostly off the table.

I'm just overwhelmingly tired at this point mentally, physically and emotionally.

The only good news so far is the culture came back clear so no infection so far.