OMG

Why is it that my patient never seems to do anything the easy way?

The surgery on Tuesday involved removal of growths in five locations around his head. One of the incisions refused to heal. Nurse Ratchet was called on to replace the dressing several times, including at 4am when she was called to duty. It looked like a knifing had taken place. Blood everywhere! So, when that new dressing overflowed again at 10am, we headed for the ER. Their answer was to apply pressure bandages and a complete head wrap, under his chin and around the top of his head.

When I returned from grocery shopping at 3pm, he was dripping blood again. This photo shows Nurse Ratchet's version of the head wrap after she cleaned him up again. By 4:30pm he had developed another serious leak!! Once again we drove ourselves to the ER. This time we had the good luck of meeting Dr. Tran who put in two sutures. The dripping seemed to miraculously stop and we headed home again.

My patient is now relaxing in the TV room, minus a head wrap and we are both hopeful that our sleep won't be interrupted by the need to call Nurse Ratchet into action!