Location: St. Augustine, FL
About Me: A high school Biology teacher's coping with rosacea while living in the interesting and sometimes insane world of public education.
January 25, 2006
Hanging in there through a slow recovery
Just a quick update. I taught Tuesday and Wednesday though in quite a bit of pain. A combination of dextromethorphan and diphenhydramine helped me to finally get some sleep last night after three nights with a total of 3 hours sleep. The incision from the colon surgery is still slowly healing in. I have two open areas that are still discharging fluid so I am still bandaging the area during the day. I have decided not to go back to the surgeon for any further followups since he just looks at the incision, rebandages it, and tells me to make another appointment without really doing anything constructive to help with the pain or sleepless nights. I am gradually getting better but am somewhat bitter over the lack of any pain management for this. It seems that all the surgeon cares about is the fact the surgery was successful. I can finish the healing process over the next month without the sort of 'help' I've gotten from him. I do intend on sending in the questionaire the hospital sent me with a complete description of the care, both good and poor, I received from the staff there. It probably won't accomplish much but at least it will help me relieve some of the anger I've felt over the whole situation.
The rosacea symptoms have been about the same, with some dryness and a little redness. With the other daily struggles it just doesn't seem as important right now. I'm going to bed now to try to get some much needed rest.
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