Monday, March 1, 2010

Goodbye, Stupid Drains!

Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!


My drains are out! My drains are out!

No more tubes. No more feed bags. No more bulbs. I hated them ... and they're finally gone! For the last two weeks, I have had tubes sticking out of the sides of my body to drain off excess fluid in the surgery sites. As a result, I have been sleeping flat on my back, a position of which I'm not particularly fond. A few times a day, Scott had to empty the drains, by pulling on the tubes and dumping the contents that collected at in the bulbs. I was also not fond of that process. I think that my good friend, Sarah, described it best when she simply said: "blech." Yes, blech. That about sums up the whole thing.

As a combination of the momentous day and the fact that the kids were here this weekend, my spirits are a bit lighter than they were the last time I posted. Our children are wonderful people ... and so is my plastic surgeon for pulling those gross tubes out of me.

Yeah for today!

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