ocunurse
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I first had OHS 4/2004 and had a bump free recovery. I'm not trying to scare people because I know a majority are bump free.
However on 12/19, I had another AVR with root replacement. I returned home 12/23. I had a pretty painful Christmas, but I was home with family and grateful for that. Unfortunately on 12/26 my incision started to ooze quite a bit. The next day we went to the ER, were sent home with antibiotics. I was home two hours and the incision started to open. Back to the ER, cultures back, found I have a pseudomonas infection, admitted to the hospital for another four days. Now I'm home with a PICC line giving myself IV antibiotics three times a day. Have to redress my incision a couple times a day due to drainage. The incision looks somewhat better everyday. I've got 6 weeks left of IV antibiotics to give myself. Whooo. Each time it takes a hour to do or so. I'm glad we caught the infection early and it didn't get into the bone, yet.
Other than that, I feel alright. My pain isn't really an issue anymore.
However on 12/19, I had another AVR with root replacement. I returned home 12/23. I had a pretty painful Christmas, but I was home with family and grateful for that. Unfortunately on 12/26 my incision started to ooze quite a bit. The next day we went to the ER, were sent home with antibiotics. I was home two hours and the incision started to open. Back to the ER, cultures back, found I have a pseudomonas infection, admitted to the hospital for another four days. Now I'm home with a PICC line giving myself IV antibiotics three times a day. Have to redress my incision a couple times a day due to drainage. The incision looks somewhat better everyday. I've got 6 weeks left of IV antibiotics to give myself. Whooo. Each time it takes a hour to do or so. I'm glad we caught the infection early and it didn't get into the bone, yet.
Other than that, I feel alright. My pain isn't really an issue anymore.