Bytes of Cookie

This week, I had to accompany hubby every day to the health center for his wound care after a post appendicitis operation infection. Our appointment is usually at 11AM except for today when it was set to 11:30AM coz hubby is supposed to see the doctor who did not come. The nurse set another doctor’s appointment tomorrow. And I hope the doctor will come coz it will be weekend again. So what’s my worry if it will be weekend? FYI, this health center is close on weekends, so it will be better if the doctor checks the wound before weekend. And also hubby’s antibiotic will be finished by tomorrow morning. He might need another prescription.

Here’s how the visit to health center goes. The nurse has to remove the green gauze that was inserted in the wound, pour 9mg Natriumklorid (sodium chloride) inside the wound to disinfect it, and then insert a new green Sorbact gauze. Hubby said removing the gauze is not that painful compared to inserting a new one. Eeeee. She would also check the wound depth and length inside the wound cavity using a medical cotton bud. Today the wound depth is about 1cm compared to the 2cm depth the other day, but lengthwise it is still 2cm.

There’s a special test the nurse did today before taking care of the wound. She took hubby’s blood sample for CRP test (C-Reactive Protein) to check for infection, then left us for few minutes to do the test. While waiting for the result, I was able to take a pic of the products and equipments used in wound care.

The small transparent bottle is the 9mg Natriumklorid used to disinfect the wound. I’ve read (under biological uses) that ‘many microorganisms cannot live in an overly salty environment’ hence sodium chloride is used to preserve some foods and disinfect wounds. You can also see in the picture the green Sorbact ribbon gauze that is inserted in the wound using dressing forceps. Other wound care products/equipments seen in the photo are dressing forceps, scissors (to cut the long green gauze coz a shorter length is now inserted), medical cotton buds (I mentioned earlier), and gauze pads.

When the nurse came back, she told us that hubby’s CRP is normal. Whew that’s good news. It means no infection. I hope tomorrow, no more green gauze. Hubby doesn’t like it a bit.

He is feeling better each day although the wound pain is still there (there’s few cm of open wound). He even started working on some office reports in his laptop, ah work is waiting.

I would like to thank everyone for the healing prayers and well wishes

1. Back to work
2. Weekend nurse