I'm a litle late this week, but decided to go to work with my mu yesterday. She's a Head of Department at a college. Her department is for students with learning difficulties so I went to see what she did. Up at 6am and home at 6.30pm I was so tired......I've only just managed to get up!
Any way, last week I spent most of the time having blood tests at the hospital ready to have my Heamodialysis line removed from my chest on Friday. I'd like to say that all went well, I was really good with my food last week and so my bloods were OK. I had the line removed, this went OK, although the pain soon set in afterwards.
I was only in for the day as you are awake when its taken out as its done under local anesthetic. So I came home and sat on the sofaall evening. I didn't sleep much and at about 5am Saturday morning I touche the dressing to find a huge lump! Hubby checked it and yes another heamatoma! (This is a collection of blood kind of lick a bruise I guess) Any way, I was in agony because the lump was the size of a golf ball and where the skin had stretched it was pulling the stitches.
So up the hospitalwe went and I argued with the doctor to take the stitches out as this has happened before and relieves the pain. After a while she decided to look at it and admitted the stitches were being pulled. So they took them out and guess what? It relieved the pain!
They put steri-strips across thecut to keep it together and re-dressed it and then I had to sit around for 2 hours to make sure it didn't bleed, as this is a major artery going into the heart!
So I spent Sunday on the sofa, as hubby idn't want me to put strain on it. Every time I do somethig it hurts. So he has been putting me on dialysis as well......suits me, he can get into practice this way and I get a break! It's getting better, but the lump is still there and is not getting any smaller. I have to be careful as a collection of blood like this can become infected so I'll keep an eye on it and ring the ward if i get worried, but at the moment I think it's OK.
