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Flailing Arms
Asher still has the preemie flailing arms thing happening. He’ll outgrow it in a few more weeks. He’s also taken to yelping for cuddles often. I’m doing considerably better with the fancy bandage tape vs the wound vac. Changing the transfer tape isn’t painful at all. I can walk about without feeling the wound much…
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Wound Vac Removed
Hooray! My wound vac came off yesterday. I can now stand normally while walking and don’t have the purse and tube to tote around all the time. It’s freeing. I go back in a week to be sure I don’t need that all put back on. In the meantime I have a fancy top wound…
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Wound Vac Info
I’ve been asked a few times this week. It’s a vacuum applied to a wound area. The goal in my case is to drain away excess fluids and also to get the cells around the cavity to regrow. After my c section I had a new kind of wound vac (pico dressing) instead of stitches…
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Forgetting the Pain
When he looks at me with that hand on my chin…I forget all the current pain I’m in for just a moment
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What is a Wound Vac?
A wound vac pump is necessary and miserable. For the past 2 weeks I’ve had this machine and tubing hooked up to my abdomen pumping away the pregnancy swelling fluids. I don’t have an end date on it…just…when I’m done. It’s becoming unbearable. My skin is really raw under all the tape. This morning I…
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After Another Day
And after another day of friends helping, the yard is caught up and the ripe tomatoes are now sauce. I’m pushing myself today. I’ve been on bed rest for over a month. My back seizing is because I must be careful about a wound vac and all its bandaging. But letting my muscles atrophy and…
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Back Seized
So thankful for the meals delivered and the crew of guys that came over last night to help Matt with yard work. Really it has meant so much to us. In just a few hours they got us mostly caught up. My back seized up yesterday while I was changing Asher. It was meant to…
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Back for Help
I woke up excited about my first day (again) home alone with Asher. I thought surely I can resume working on my laptop around his feedings. But then I went to change a diaper and ended up in tears. So much sitting in a way to help my incision has left my back super seized.…
