If you had being readmitted to hospital on your bingo card you’re doing better than me. If you had your doctor send you to the ED and they take you straight to the back with 102 fever and start two IVs, draw labs, blood cultures and take an EKG on your bingo card, hats off to you. If you had get head of line privileges for a head CT with contrast, you’re doing awesome! If you had have a second surgery to open all the incisions back up and irrigate and drain every aspect of the original surgical site possible while leaving two drains that exit into your mouth and remove your jaw wires the next day, you win!
Yes, that is where I am at. I was admitted Wednesday evening and had surgery Thursday afternoon. Not to get into too much detail between the smell of strong antibiotics combined with the deathly odor of infection I smelled like a poorly run skilled nursing facility minus the urine odor. I will be here until at least Monday, then don’t know if I will have a pic line placed to continue iv antibiotics at home or be able to take oral antibiotics.
How did it go so far so fast? That’s what we would all like to know. I had just had my regular post op appointment the day before and had been on antibiotics for five days. Things were cautiously optimistic. Somewhere overnight I took a turn for the worse when the antibiotics just couldn’t hold off the infection. I woke up Wednesday morning with a fever, alot of pain, and super weak feeling like I was going to pass out. I took meds, tried hydrating, had some apple juice to make sure it wasn’t a blood sugar thing, to no avail. I texted my doc with an update, including a picture of my face noticeably more swollen than the previous day, but he was in surgery all morning. I followed up by calling his office who told me to come in right away. Once he saw me I could tell by the look on his face that it was not good.
I’m really tired and have been sleeping most of the time, but wanted to check in since you’re used to hearing from me weekly lately.
