Day Six with my two grenades! Jackson and Pratt

Well another restless night of sleep. This is day six and all is well with the surgery site. Its just these two grenade drains that are attached to my body.

I had an allergic reaction while on the Percocet and I had to stop taking it. So I have had to rely on Tylenol since day 3 and it has been tough. I have a bit of tingling at the incision site, but just a plain painful bruised feeling from the drain site. Well as long as all goes okay they will be removed on Monday March 8th. From the looks of it the drainage is tapering off so I am sure that will not be a problem.

For those that don't know: When you have a total mastectomy they insert two drainage bulbs in the wound to drain off excess fluid that accumulates in the site. The name of the drains are Jackson-Pratt must be the names of the inventors. At first it starts off as just blood but as time goes on it turns into a pink color and then clear then if all is well to no drainage. No drainage or less than 2 teaspoons is where I want to be on Monday and I am getting almost clear now.

Well with all this I will just say: A big hole in my theory that I would go to the hospital and have them cut off. That I would get a big band-aid with bacatracin on it and sent home. Really I didn't think it that simple but I really wasn't prepared for all this.