Towels and Scissors

 
I saw sunlight peeking through the curtain this morning. It was one of those "night owl" nights" for both hubby and me. Too soon I hear, "Hunny, the nurse will be here in 15 mins." and I rise like I'm in a coffin blinking away from the bright sunshine. This morning I could use a few clouds.

Meanwhile, the nice home care nurse is here and has already disappeared into our bedroom and from the loud gasps and moans is changing his vac-pack bandages. It probably wouldn't be as bad if it wasn't in his groin area. But that's where the hidradenitis likes to cause a lot of trouble with boils and pain.

So far I have gotten a towel and a pair of scissors for the nurse. What nurse doesn't have scissors? I'm not hearing any noise at the moment so either the pain pill kicked in somewhat or the nurse is really good at changing vac-pack bandages. My eyes have finally stopped the "I was woke up too early" watering. But I have no voice just hoarse croaking to answer those two questions, can you bring a  towel and then, scissors.

I think I like this nurse. It's a female nurse, last time it was a male nurse. I'm pretty sure except for the initial gasps of pain in the beginning I want to keep this nurse for that saying is true, Silence IS Golden. And to cover my butt I like both sexes of nurses.

Toast and Ancient Aliens

After 5 days, I have a husband home again. This is a hospital's idea of going home the following day...

So the patient knows what to bring and the family knows what's going to happen as far as bringing patient home.

Patient- Do you know how long I will be here?
Doctor- If all goes well and I don't see any problem here, the next day.
Wife- Oh good, I won't pack anything extra for him, just clothes.
Family- Its only a 1 and a half hour drive, no problem. We will be here.
Doctor- Comes out after surgery and tells family all went well, the family is relieved, wife grabs packed the bag, after all, the patient won't need it says the nurse. (At this point family had to leave and the patient is still in recovery). Wife is sad.

5 days later husband is finally well enough to come home with a home nurse coming 3 times a week for a couple of weeks. Then he gets to go back for the grafting and do this all over again.

But the surgery went well. They removed the boils from his hidradenitis around his groin area and he has a vacuum-pack attached sucking out all the poisons and is extremely uncomfortable.

A very nice male nurse is here as we speak working on him now. My husband is mostly a champ about all this, but it does catch up with him. I try and help the best I can making him toast for breakfast and found his favorite show on Netflix called Ancient Aliens.