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So much for plans

It’s been a long weekend.

My biggest goal this weekend, after all the preparation for my mom, the trip to Wichita and Kingman etc. and a full week of work, was simply to sleep until I felt like waking up. And I accomplished that goal.

I slept in very late Saturday morning and it was wonderful.

And then the trouble started. The three little sore spots by my stoma started acting up again. When I went to change my ostomy, they’d fused into one big sore and bled. It wasn’t uncontrollable, go-to-the-emergency-room kind of bleeding. It was just annoying, now-my-appliance-isn’t-going-to-stick kind of bleeding.

Sure enough, thanks to the runs, I had a devil of a time keeping an appliance on. And every time it had to be changed, the tape tore my skin and bled. Now I have the sores by the stoma, plus some new raw spots that bled quite a bit and then got sort of pussy (hope you aren’t eating breakfast.)

The annoying part about this is that I ended up spending a good part of the weekend in bed trying to hold still, not aggravate anything, and allow things to heal up. I was hoping that at least by Monday things would be better.

So now I feel cheated out of my weekend.

But I don’t have anything to complain about. It seems as though we’ve got a little GI epidemic going on in the Network. We have several folks in the hospital, recently out of the hospital, or headed for the hospital Monday morning. I can hardly whine too much.

We really need this GI protocol to get rolling.
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