Today's Surgery Results

Don't know the formal name of the procedure, but Venita's mast scar had failed to heal, turned black, and was dying. Dr. Boob took her into surgery and cut out the dying tissue and restitched the opening. He told Jim that it went well; that there was more tissue to work with than he had thought. Dr. Boob also put a second Jackson Pratt drain into the wound.

Venita didn't have a formal surgery time. She was an "add-on," got a call at 1pm, sat and cooled her heels in pre-op/holding until 3:30pm, one hour in surgery, out of the building by about 5:30.

So many of the OR floor nurses remembered Venita. That was nice; felt like they had her on "special watch." And Venita is getting pretty good about knowing the "routine" about the info they need, what to wear, and where to go.

Already Venita's incision feels better. It had been starting to feel as bad as her right breast nipple when she got the ischemia and the nipple went gangrenous.

Nothing more for Venita this week. Jim get's a follow-up with his GP for his stress reaction tomorrow.

We're holding it all together pretty well.