Surgery
If a room is available, I will be operated upon at noon tomorrow. They will be draining the abscess and installing some sort of vacuum device which will continue draining the resulting cavity for three to four weeks. There will be a sponge in there as part of this device which will need to be replaced every three days either by home health care or at the Medical City wound care center.
This device also included an external pump of some sort I will have to carry with me at all times. I'm looking at a month of sweat pants, of which I have about one pair.
I spent most of today, even before knowing about surgery, freaking the fuck out. I had completely run out of both my sunny disposition and any ability to deal.
At one point, I'm standing in my own blood which is flowing down my leg on the verge of tears and my mother chose that moment to walk into my room. Yeah, composure quickly became a word with meaning only for other people.
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