{"id":65279,"date":"2022-11-01T13:11:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=65279"},"modified":"2022-11-03T08:55:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:55:01","slug":"we-are-becoming-experts-yet-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=65279","title":{"rendered":"We Are Becoming Experts At Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fact: How do abdominal drains work?<\/strong> A surgical drain allows the fluid to flow out. The doctor puts a thin, flexible rubber tube into the area of your body where the fluid is likely to collect. The rubber tube carries the fluid outside your body. The most common type of surgical drain carries the fluid into a collection bulb that you empty.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mary was up so I knew Dr. Scout was up; I checked the security camera!<\/p>\n

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He pretends to be asleep so he can bite the burglar in the butt!<\/p><\/div>\n

We are STILL in the ER after a long night.\u00a0 Finally, the IR guy comes by and says the procedure will begin soon.\u00a0 IR is Interventional Radiology.<\/p>\n

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Did You Know? <\/strong> Interventional radiology (IR) is a medical specialty that performs various minimally-invasive procedures using medical imaging guidance, such as x-ray fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultrasound.\u00a0 IR doctor performs both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures through very small incisions or body orifices. Diagnostic IR procedures are those intended to help make a diagnosis or guide further medical treatment, and include image-guided biopsy of a tumor or injection of an imaging contrast agent into a hollow structure, such as a blood vessel or a duct.\u00a0 By contrast, therapeutic IR procedures provide direct treatment\u2014they include catheter-based medicine delivery, medical device placement (e.g., stents), and angioplasty of narrowed structures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fortunately. today’s procedure involved him looking at the tummy through an ultra-sound\u00a0 only.\u00a0 After a few hmm’s and ah-haw’s, he got a syringe and extracted 120 mL of fluid and a piece of lymphocele that was blocking the drain.\u00a0 The leak was caused by the loose material, and the fluid went around the drain! After that, the drain worked fine!<\/p>\n

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The ultrasound was an easy teat!<\/p><\/div>\n

Except for the knee, I wanted to go home.\u00a0 We called the bone doctor,\u00a0 and he sent his PA, who recognized the pain when she saw it.\u00a0 \u00a0I was hanging by the overhead lamp screening at the top of my lungs!\u00a0 The knee was very painful.\u00a0 Due to extreme self-control, I avoided the explicatives but I was getting close!<\/p>\n

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They brought in a portable X-Ray machine so I did not have to move.\u00a0 After she saw the X-Ray, she ordered an MRI, so we had to stay until almost 7:00 PM.\u00a0 Thank goodness Mary found a supply of oxycodone and a bottle of extra-strength Tylenol.\u00a0 \u00a0That wonderful woman of mine makes a mean cocktail!\u00a0 I name the drink “Doctor Mary”.<\/p>\n

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Yummy when you are in pain!<\/p><\/div>\n

I was loopy!\u00a0 Obviously, Mary drove home.<\/p>\n

The pain was so bad that I did another cocktail and got some sleep; I knew I had an appointment with the doctor at 2:30 PM; three hours after Mary’s appointment in Long Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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