{"id":361,"date":"2002-10-28T13:19:20","date_gmt":"2002-10-28T08:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/361"},"modified":"2002-10-28T13:19:20","modified_gmt":"2002-10-28T08:19:20","slug":"the-story-thus-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/361","title":{"rendered":"The story thus far"},"content":{"rendered":"

On request from JenBen<\/a>, here’s the synopsis on the boob thing.<\/p>\n

10\/01 – discover a little bump on the bottom of my left boob. Since I’d just had a baby, I thought it might be a plugged duct or something.<\/p>\n

3\/02 – bump still there. I ask my OB about it who sends me to see a surgeon. Get a mammogram and an untrasound which show a nodule. Surgeon says there’s less than 5% chance it’s malignant, suggests we wait 6 months and see how it looks then.<\/p>\n

early 9\/02 – mammogram, ultrasound, etc. Bump still there, surgeon suggests removing it in a procedure called excisional biopsy. I have the surgery on the 10th. Pathology says tissue is benign.<\/p>\n

mid 9\/02 – the wound isn’t healing well. There’s necrotic tissue in the middle and dying tissue all around the incision.<\/p>\n

early 10\/02 – surgeon suggests that I have another surgery to remove the necrotic tissue, clean up the edges of the wound, and bring them together. I agree and surgery is done.<\/p>\n

mid 10\/02 – some of the steristrips start to come off and I notice the incision is repoening. There’s a dime sized hole in the bottom of the scar that looks deep. I call the doctor at night and he tells me to come in the next morning. Later that evening I put the 1 year old in bed and got tangled up in the blanket and crib rail and feel a sudden pain. The next morning the wound is about 2.5 inches tall and 1.5 inches wide and so deep I literally expect to see my rib bones.<\/p>\n

The doctor said that we need to have a wet to dry dressing, which involves packing the wound with saline soaked gauze and changing it daily. I go in to Wound Care every day to have this done.<\/p>\n

Last week – the surgeon said I’m a good candidate for a Vacuum Assisted Closure<\/a> and asks Wound Care to evaluate me for that purpose. They concur, and tomorrow I will hopefully be fitted with my little portable suction device. It will hopefully greatly reduce healing time.<\/p>\n

That’s all so far! I’ll post more when I know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On request from JenBen, here’s the synopsis on the boob thing. 10\/01 – discover a little bump on the bottom of my left boob. Since I’d just had a baby, I thought it might be a plugged duct or something. 3\/02 – bump still there. I ask my OB about it who sends me to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}