Monday, 27-Oct-2008
Saw Dr. Kuisle. He looked at Kris' wound and said that he needed to excise the bad tissue. It's also looking a bit red and angry, so, we are concerned about infection. He gave us a prescription for antibiotics and made an appointment for Wednesday at 4pm to do the procedure, outpatient.
Wednesday, 29-Oct-2008
Took Kris in. They gave her a local and did the procedure. He didn't find anything that he was surprised by. Told us to go home and take it easy. Her binding is now optional. She starts Physical therapy next week.
On the drive home, she was in a good deal of pain... she's weaned herself down to a fairly low dose of pain killers. We decided to take one as soon as she got in the car as the local was wearing off and the pain was increasing. She took both of her pain medications reasonably quickly (which is still a very low dose but it's the max dose she's been taking).
When we got her home and settled down, everything seemed fine.
Kris' spirits are generaly up though she was kind of down when we realized that some of the tissue from the reconstruction wasn't going to make it.
Oh, and what ever you do, don't watch the show Living Proof! Maybe I'm just too close to the subject, but, in the 16 years that I've known Kris, she's never seen me cry... not sure that's a good thing but... that movie (it's about the fight to develop Herceptin) made me cry like an open faucet! Was a terrible sight I'm sure... fortunately, Kris was in the other room... though, I freely admitted to my failings to her. :) Seriously, it's a great movie and I was rather surprised at the fight that had to be taken to get the drug to go through! Not that it was a fight of a technical nature, all of the tests seem to indicate the drug had promise, strong promise, from the outset... it was a political fight and that made me feel rather disgusted at our system!
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