Monday - She had an appointment with the Vascular surgeon to set a time for surgery to remove the IVC filter. She then had a wound change and everything looked fabulous. No sign of infection whatsoever. She does need additional debriding but they said they may be able to do it at the same time as the skin grafts - it will be up to the plastic surgeon whom we will see Monday. Her wound can best be described as looking like she was bitten by a shark.
Monday night, Meg wasn't feeling well. She had 102 degree fever. Because she wasn't having any other issues, we opted to give her tylenol and call the dr in the morning unless the fever didn't go down. The fever went down with tylenol and she felt better.
Tuesday morning, her temp was normal or the fever was very low. She went to Occupational Therapy for her arm. Therapist Jamey was very surprised at how well she is able to move her arm, wrist and fingers given her injury. She will need therapy 2x a week for at least two months on her arm. After OT, Meg's temperature was back up to 100ish. She called Dr. F and spoke to a nurse. They didn't feel that 100-102 was that concerning and instructed Meg to stay on tylenol as long as she has fever and to call if it goes over 102. Tuesday evening, Caitlin made surgar cookies and Meg, Caitlin and the Lambert twins decorated them. Meg has to do her OT exercises 4-6 times per day. She was sore and tired and went to bed by 9pm.
Wednesday morning (today), her fever was at 100 again this morning. She went to wound care for a dressing change. They also said her fever was "not a problem at this time". After dressing change, she went to vascular surgery to remove the IVC filter.
UPDATE - The vascular surgeon could not remove her IVC filter because (drum roll please) Meg has a big old blood clot trapped in it. She now has to take a blood thinner pills until the clot dissolves and a week of daily shots in the stomach. The shots cost about $157 each. Thank goodness for health insurance that covers medications!!
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Thanks Laura for the update. Hope everything continues to go well and sure hope the fever is not any indication of any complications. Of course there are enough people on top of this to keep it under control. Hope you all have a great Christmas. Will plan to call in the next day or so. Love
MERRY CHRISTMAS and so glad to hear things are going to be okay.
love from us all...
Meghan, hope your have a Merry Christmas! I am so glad you were able to be home for the holidays.
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