Those with weak stomachs will want to skip this one. \u00a0You’ve been warned.<\/p>\n
I was working on my jack-o-lantern (more on that later) last night when my room-mate approached me and showed me his stomach. \u00a0The area around his hernia scar was dramatically more distended than usual. \u00a0 He was supposed to see his home-nurse today so we sort of dismissed it for the time being.<\/p>\n
Around 9:45, after his shower, he called to me in a panic. \u00a0The site had opened up and was draining. \u00a0And based on what was coming out and the horrible, horrible smell – we figured it was an infection. \u00a0 He needed to use the bathroom and was hoping it would reduce. \u00a0I told him I’d take a shower while he was doing that and we’d decide what to do next.<\/p>\n
I got dressed after my shower and came downstairs – and found he was much worse. \u00a0 The pus was dripping all over the kitchen floor and the smell was, if anything, worse. \u00a0He ran out of paper towels trying to keep it contained. \u00a0I got him an old towel to hold in place and we headed to the\u00a0hospital.<\/p>\n
I dropped him off at the door, parked the car, then tracked him down. \u00a0 The doctor saw him fairly quickly and got his medical history. \u00a0They pulled the towel away and it somehow even worse. \u00a0Thick and brown discharge – just really horrible.<\/p>\n
They took him for a CT scan and the doctor told him that they would either put in a tube to drain it or do surgery to make sure they got the whole pocket of infection.<\/p>\n
I called and updated \u00a0his brother and then stayed with my room-mate until 1 in the morning – then headed home since there was nothing more I could do.<\/p>\n
When I got home, I had to clean up the kitchen. \u00a0Not a fun task. \u00a0 I didn’t get to sleep until about 2:00 am and I am dragging ass this morning.<\/p>\n
My room-mate called me this morning while I was on my way to work to let me know he had been moved to a room and reminded me to call his home nurse and cancel for today. \u00a0He also told me I could tell his brother and one of his sisters where he was, but not the other one because she would just call and pester him. \u00a0So, added bonus, I’m expected to get in the middle of a family squabble.<\/p>\n
Tired and cranky. \u00a0Not a great way to start the day. \u00a0At least it’s Friday. \u00a0And I’ve got a kick ass pumpkin waiting on my front porch when I get home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Those with weak stomachs will want to skip this one. \u00a0You’ve been warned. I was working on my jack-o-lantern (more on that later) last night when my room-mate approached me and showed me his stomach. \u00a0The area around his hernia scar was dramatically more distended than usual. \u00a0 He was supposed to see his home-nurse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}