37 days & still draining...

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  • Chelee
    Chelee Member Posts: 513
    edited May 2007
    BeckGal, Sounds like you are getting very close to having your JP drain pulled out. YEAH. Let me know how that goes on Tues? You will feel so much better once its out.

    Tomorrow is 54 DAYS for me and still counting. Something HAS to be wrong with the way my surgeon did my mastectomy. This is going on WAY to long. I really am beyond fed-up with this drain. If I ever get it out of me I won't know what to do with myself.

    Let me know if you get yours out Tues. I bet a million bucks you do. I am thinking positive for you. Come to think about it...you don't have to tell me because I will HEAR YOU SCREAM it all the way from texas. LOL

    Hang in there.

    Chelee
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  • jbettie
    jbettie Member Posts: 19
    edited May 2007
    Chelee,
    My heart goes out to you. I had my drains in for three weeks and thought i would go crazy if they didn't take them out. I think i was just on the boarderline where she was considering leaving them in, but one of the drains had been cut when the nurse was doing something with it so it wasn't functioning properly. Thank God they decided to just pull them both. 21 days was plenty. i cannot imagine 52 days.
    I had the same JP drains, one on each side just under the incision site (bilat mast with snb). It made me feel like one of the creatures from star wars or alien with those dang things in there.
    Hang in there! You will survive this too!
    Jules
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  • BeeMack
    BeeMack Member Posts: 40
    edited May 2007
    Chelee. Well I go tomorrow. My 24 hr total today was 40cc. I bet I come home with the ol' JP still attached. So your ears are spared for another few days. LOL. And how are YOU doing? I am praying those levels down ..There has GOT to be a stop to it for you. You hang in there too, my friend.

    BeckGal
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  • Chelee
    Chelee Member Posts: 513
    edited May 2007
    Beckgal, That's a bummer...your SO CLOSE to getting it out. Darn! And unfortunetly it doesn't pay to get them pulled early because you will only end up with a big seroma build up under there...and believe me...thats no fun.

    I bet at the most you have ONE more week and you should be done. Yeah. Good luck tomorrow...hang in there...I just know it won't be long now. (For you anyway...as for me..who knows.) I think mine will be permanent.

    Chelee
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  • BeeMack
    BeeMack Member Posts: 40
    edited May 2007
    Well, Chelee...Still singing "I've Got You Under My Skin"...the drains are in for at least a week BUT I can DRIVE NOW...just not on the freeways. Thank GOODNESS we don't LIVE in Houston, so I can at least drive to town around these parts, visit friends, go see my mom, etc.

    She (Doc) took the steristrips off and things "feel" better. But I am ready to part with JP anytime she sees fit to take "it". Still praying that YOU get it out soon soon SOON. I meantioned my friend who has had the drains in for nearly 60 days. The doc. didn't venture an answer. If YOU get an answer as to why, do share.

    BeckGal
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  • Chelee
    Chelee Member Posts: 513
    edited May 2007
    BeckGal, That's cute, "I've got you under my skin". hahaha
    I am sorry you didn't get the drains out yet. I had a feeling maybe one more week. Your SO CLOSE. But at least you can drive now..that has to be a BIG plus.

    I see my surgeon this coming Monday 5-14-07 and I hope I get mine pulled then or I am going to be fuming mad. I really have had it. If its not below 30 cc's by then...he BETTER send me to someone to find out WHY it hasn't slowed down more then this after TWO months! I can't find any women that went this long other then the one you mentioned? So this is NOT common. Especially when you have JUST a "simple" mastectomy and NO SNB. If I had a SNB with this...I could kind of understand. But there is just no excuse for this. Plus this side looks butchered compared to the first side he did? Its really sloppy...scar line is all crooked...looks terrible. I think he just cut away without much thought. I'm not very happy with him after this last surgery.

    On Monday when I see him it will officially be 61 days with my drain in. So your friend NEVER got any answer why hers went this long either? Your friend is the ONLY one I have heard of that went this long? I'm serious...I've asked around every where. Most go at the MOST a month to a month & 1/2 max it seems. But YES...IF I can get some kind of explanation out of my surgeon I will sure share that with you. (I bet he will tell me it just happens some times.) ARGH.

    Okie dokie...you hang in there...it won't be much longer and yours WILL be out. Then you can feel closer to a normal human being.

    Chelee
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  • BeeMack
    BeeMack Member Posts: 40
    edited May 2007
    Chelee..the "friend" I mentioned was YOU, my friend. I don't know anyone else personally who has sung "Got You Under My Skin" as long as YOU have. After describing your incision scar and all..it sounds like someone wasn't paying attention to detail! Is there another doc you can see if his answers aren't satisfactory?

    We will all be praying that Monday will be the DAY for you! My surgery was MRM and SNB. Oops time to go measure the 24 hr. stuff. BRB with the #'s.

    Ok 50 CC again. Two days running now.

    Keep us posted!
    Becky
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2007
    Chelee,

    I simply must know.... are you drain free?



    Miss S
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  • Zzap
    Zzap Member Posts: 77
    edited May 2007
    Yes, Inquiring minds...

    Hope to hear good news! I don't post much, but I've been reading your thread all along.
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  • Chelee
    Chelee Member Posts: 513
    edited May 2007
    DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!! I saw my surgeon Monday morning and he FINALLY pulled the drain. YEAH. I had that thing in SO LONG that when I got home to use the rest room the first thing I did is go to check my drain to empty it. But it was GONE. LOL Its turned in to a habit I had it so long.

    Sixty one days as of today. (Monday) Far to long for a so called simple mastectomy. I feel like a new person with that gone. I know I officially hold the world record for having a jp drain in the longest. I am just thrilled its gone for good.

    Chelee
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