I had developed an infection in/on my right breast underneath. I was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday Sept 16th and was there for 6 days. I had gone in for a regular appointment with the plastic surgeon, but o was in horrible pain again in the right side so the nurser looked at me and immediately got the rotor. Doc sent me down for an delta sound to look for infection, And while I was gettin that done, her nurse called me with a direct admitt room on the 8th floor. An infectious disease doctor was called in. Through tests and exams the two doctors determined that this red skin, puffy, hot and painful patch on my breast was Cellulitis. I was on drip antibiotics and Saturday they switched me to oral ciprofoxin, but kept one drip. They wanted to send me home but they had problems accessing my port so I could get home. X-ray showed the fluids spilling into the soft tissue instead of the vein attached to the port. After mumeroud sticks, they finally stopped and doctor said I'd be stayingi until Monday and maybe surgery to fix or replace port. Meantime I had the BEST nursing staff .
So Monday rolls around and the Breast surgeon shows and tries again to access my port and she did Get it working! A fluoroscopy was done to confirm it was fine! Home bound I was! Thanks to all the family and friends who visited Sunday .. I even had a pizza party to help keep that hospital food! I did have to do home infusions this home time. Pretty easy going there. I infuse my antibiotic myself and a home health care nurse comes every 5 days to change my port line. After having gone theough 9 years of fertility treatments, I totally comfortable doing these myself.
I went back Monday to the Plastic Surgeon and she said I needed surgery right away because the infection was not getting better, was angrier actually. So yesterday I got to same day surgery and had surgery. The right breast muscle had partly died. I had requested the expander be taken out.
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