This weeks checkup with doc

Well, I had hoped to see the doc and my WOCN but the WOCN had something come up this morning and was not at the clinic.  I did utilize her newest "helper" though and we got things put together until I go back on Friday.

Yes, I have to go back on Friday because what I thought was pain from the burn around my stoma where output had gotten in contact with the skin was actually an abcess draining :(  Yeah, the abcess that they tried to drain 3 weeks ago when I was in the hospital - as in cut into it and pushed and nothing came out - decided to start draining yesterday.  ***?  So, she dosed me up with lidocaine, made a larger incision on the abcess and packed it with iodoform.  I get to go back on Friday so she can take everything down again and do it all over.  She has asked that my husband come to the appointment with me b/c she would like him to take everything down on Sunday and re-dress/pack it all.  I know he has no problem doing it and told her so, she wants to talk to him about it for professional practice she said - one provider to another.  I thought that was pretty cool.

So, anyway - my WOCN helper made a crust around my stoma using stoma powder and cavilon and then we just stuck the pouch on, right on top of the packed abcess and all.  It effing hurts - the numbing stuff is wearing off.  I am hella glad I have those giant bottles of lortab :)

OH-I did the marshmallow "trick" that I read about here and it worked!  Last week Stella spouted EVERYWHERE (avocado) and I had a mess on my shirt :(  This week, not a thing - yay!!

Well, when I was inpatient they thought it was an abcess so they incised and tried to drain but nothing came out. They sent me to CT and sure enough, there was an abcess but it was ABOVE the stoma and the place the incised and tried to drain was BELOW the stoma (b/c that is where it was red and tender). So, it was such a small place we decided not to mess with and just let it run it's course. Well, obviously it just was taking it's time b/c 3 weeks later it finally got around to draining from the incision that we made initially. The incision is just about 2cm below my stoma - which is why I easily mixed up where the pain was coming from. It was my WOCN who saw it and brought the on call doc in to look so I assum they have the ability to recognize it. I hope you just have the burn!

I don't know about the burn to abcess thing but at this point I find that nothing is impossible LOL! I do not believe that is how this one occurred since the abcess was originally found when I was still in hospital and this burn just developed in the past couple days. You never know. On a side note, the order I placed yesterday for new supplies shipped yesterday too - yay!! Hopefully they will be here before the weekend so I can give 'em a try.