A Set-Back
I wanted to give you a quick update about my health and recent surgery. Please continue to be in prayer for me.
Last Monday through early Thursday, I was feeling pretty well. I mean, I was still in pain, but it was manageable with a lower strength of pain medication (the one I usually take for my chronic back pain). Anyhow, Thursday evening I started to feel horrible; I started to have severe pain again, and I ended up feeling a lot of pressure and heaviness and inflammation on my operating site. It was somewhat swollen but I decided to weigh it out. I was running a slight fever that day about 100 degrees. Friday and Saturday remained the same with a lot of pain, pressure, and mild fever. Sometimes it would run 99 sometimes it would run 101; but the pain medication I take has Tylenol in it so it help bring the fever down; I continued to monitor it and keep tabs on my temperature readings. I wasn't really expecting anything dramatic; Sunday morning I was feeling okay and running 99.1; so I decided to go ahead and head to church with my parents and then I headed to Valley Mall to meet a friend and then to my church to see the ordination of our worship leader, Burress (It was such an exciting time!!). During the service, I ended up feeling worse and worse and hotter and hotter. Mom noticed a increased swelling (and this time it spread to my upper right face and even my eyelid is swollen!) and when I returned home that evening, my fever was 100.9. I told mom that I was going to call my doctor in the morning (Monday morning); but Mom told me to call UVA and page the on-call doctor NOW. Well, the operator told me who was the on-call doctor for Plastic/Reconstrucive Surgery Clinic. (I can't call my own doctor until I call the resident or fellow) and I didn't recongize the name; so I requested the operator to page the Resident I did know and who is following my case closely (Dr. McIntyre). Dr.McIntyre called me back right away; I explained to him what was going on and he said it sounded as if I developed another infection (eeks). So he was going to call in an antibiotic in the morning. He told me that it was okay to go ahead and try to go to work, but to take it easy.
So, this morning, I went to work; not feeling the greatest. Dr. McIntrye called me to see how I was feeling and I basically told him I still didn't feel well and the pressure and pain and inflammation was really bothering me; he told me that he spoke with Dr. Gampper (my doctor) and he wants me to go in to the clinic on Wednesday. I'm now on antibiotics and I'm assuming they want to see a day or two of antibiotics will help the situation, but we'll see when Wednesday comes.
So, in a long run-on update, I'm continuing to recover and hope that nothing more major is wrong since my surgery.
Last Monday through early Thursday, I was feeling pretty well. I mean, I was still in pain, but it was manageable with a lower strength of pain medication (the one I usually take for my chronic back pain). Anyhow, Thursday evening I started to feel horrible; I started to have severe pain again, and I ended up feeling a lot of pressure and heaviness and inflammation on my operating site. It was somewhat swollen but I decided to weigh it out. I was running a slight fever that day about 100 degrees. Friday and Saturday remained the same with a lot of pain, pressure, and mild fever. Sometimes it would run 99 sometimes it would run 101; but the pain medication I take has Tylenol in it so it help bring the fever down; I continued to monitor it and keep tabs on my temperature readings. I wasn't really expecting anything dramatic; Sunday morning I was feeling okay and running 99.1; so I decided to go ahead and head to church with my parents and then I headed to Valley Mall to meet a friend and then to my church to see the ordination of our worship leader, Burress (It was such an exciting time!!). During the service, I ended up feeling worse and worse and hotter and hotter. Mom noticed a increased swelling (and this time it spread to my upper right face and even my eyelid is swollen!) and when I returned home that evening, my fever was 100.9. I told mom that I was going to call my doctor in the morning (Monday morning); but Mom told me to call UVA and page the on-call doctor NOW. Well, the operator told me who was the on-call doctor for Plastic/Reconstrucive Surgery Clinic. (I can't call my own doctor until I call the resident or fellow) and I didn't recongize the name; so I requested the operator to page the Resident I did know and who is following my case closely (Dr. McIntyre). Dr.McIntyre called me back right away; I explained to him what was going on and he said it sounded as if I developed another infection (eeks). So he was going to call in an antibiotic in the morning. He told me that it was okay to go ahead and try to go to work, but to take it easy.
So, this morning, I went to work; not feeling the greatest. Dr. McIntrye called me to see how I was feeling and I basically told him I still didn't feel well and the pressure and pain and inflammation was really bothering me; he told me that he spoke with Dr. Gampper (my doctor) and he wants me to go in to the clinic on Wednesday. I'm now on antibiotics and I'm assuming they want to see a day or two of antibiotics will help the situation, but we'll see when Wednesday comes.
So, in a long run-on update, I'm continuing to recover and hope that nothing more major is wrong since my surgery.
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