Hello friends, don’t know if this is the correct forum - so moderator, pl move, if necessary!! Not visited the forum since surgery as life difficult and NO energy. Sorry, folks.
MX, 1st Oct, discharged 2 days later with drains in situ - later removed. Few days after 2nd drain out developed what the surgeon descibes as ‘bog-standard’ infection - so antibiots for 2+ weeks and continuing DAILY visits to GP practice or walk-in surgery at w’ends. This can take up to 3hrs - gridlocked roads and waiting time, so pretty p… off with it all. London doesn’t ‘do’ district nurses if you are ambulant: latter meaning you can walk a short distance, even if you can;t make it back after they’ve poked and prodded you - BE WARNED!
However, y’day woke up with temperature and nurse found pus weeping out of wound. Had the beloved massaged my lymphatic cording too vigorously? Today, temp down but wound still weeping.
Any experience re lymphatic cording, massage etc?
On the bright side we’re going up to Suffolk next week and surgery there fixed daily appts and offered District Nurse at w’ends if needed!
One more question? Any one had any experience of Maggie’s Centres. There is one at Charing Cross but no-one told me about it - I simply nosied about at Outpatient Clinic 8 and found all these leaflets. BW