Well, I feel MUCH better than the first night home! The local they gave me wore off not long after we got home and it immediately started feeling like FIRE. I couldn't get comfortable at ALL, even with lidocaine patches and percocet in me. When we went to see my OB the next day, he was more than happy to just write a script for straight percocet rather than the one with tylenol in it (the percocet wore off faster than the tylenol), which helped immensely and actually let me sleep for a few hours after lunch. The only really bad part was afterward we went to get the gauze taken out and a new one packed in.
Hell. It hurt. A LOT.
The nurse went slowly and used liquid lidocaine to numb the nerves inside, which helped, but not nearly enough. Apparently the doctor packed a TON of gauze in there while I was out, and some of it had dried blood, which clung to raw flesh inside, which burned like crazy. I sobbed like a baby the whole time. I trust the nurse when she said that was the worst of it yesterday, since it felt a lot better once the new gauze was in and I didn't have a burning feeling any more. I only needed one percocet instead of two every so often and actually slept past when I was supposed to take it. The nurse did recommend taking two percocet tonight and getting in the shower before taking the gauze out tonight to replace though, since the water will loosen it and the percocet will hopefully dull any pain. My mom is heading over after work so I can potentially crush her hands when Dan puts the new gauze in (he has to soak it in sterile saline first and then push it gently in with one of those long q-tips they usually use for a pap smear, but the wooden end instead of the q-tip side (the cotton would stick to the gauze and pull it right back out). So cross your fingers that it doesn't hurt as much tonight! I'm hopeful, since it seems some of it has already come loose, so....
Basically it should take a month or two to heal competely, but we don't want the edges to touch. That would form a bridge of skin and then wouldn't heal from the inside out, it would just heal from the top and potentially create another abscess. And that's what we DON'T want.
So I can't drive until then. And someone doesn't want to let me order from Sephora due to the potential hospital bill. Isn't that what our medical insurance is for?
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