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On call nurse came Posted by Paula on 7/27/2025, 6:21 pm Because my vac was acting up. Also, I smelled something odd. She took off the dressing and infectious, yellow, smelly fluid was puddled up. This can't be happening! My nurse will come tomorrow and I guess we'll take it from there. Trying not to panic but the infection should be all gone. It spread so quickly before. Maybe it's no big deal??

Oh Paula.... Posted by Beverly on 7/27/2025, 10:48 pm, in reply to "On call nurse came" My heart and my head want to explode as I hear this. I am so sorry. I hope and pray it's not any kind of a set back or big deal. I know you will keep us posted. I am sending hugs thru the air to you. -----> (((Paula))) Love you so much, sweetie.

I’m glad you got… Posted by Cindy on 7/27/2025, 9:54 pm, in reply to "On call nurse came" The nurse out there so quickly! Praying this clears up fast. Keep them on top of it!

Oh, Paula Posted by Delta on 7/27/2025, 9:51 pm, in reply to "On call nurse came" I hope that they get you on antibiotics quickly enough to get ahead of it this time. Some people have a hard time getting rid of an infection. I am that way with strep infections, whether on the skin or on any part of my body. My bacterial cyst was even strep. I have so much that if my immune system gets the least bit low, it just multiplies like rabbits. I hope they can get you on immunotherapy to help your immune system build back. Is it possible that after the wound vac came out that it didn't get put back well enough and it has built up? I hope it is something that is easily fixed.

3x week Posted by Paula on 7/27/2025, 9:56 pm, in reply to "Oh, Paula" The nurses change the dressing and reinsert the tube into the sponge in the actual wound and reattach the other end to the vac. I cannot go back to the hospital!

Hang in there Posted by Delta on 7/27/2025, 10:24 pm, in reply to "3x week" A friend of ours who is in his 40s had a problem with a sore on his leg that kept getting infected. We saw him at a function after he had had a vac for almost two months and asked him how he was doing, and he gave us an answer that sounded almost like your story. He said he didn't know when he would ever get it off. He was very down. They did another round of two antibiotics that were different than the ones that he had been on before, and in two weeks, when we saw him, the wound vac was gone. Another couple of weeks, and he didn't even have a bandage any longer. Maybe that will happen to you.

Oh, Paula! Posted by Joan on 7/27/2025, 8:13 pm, in reply to "On call nurse came" Not again! Maybe it was caught earlier this time, and it can be turned around quickly if it is indeed an infection. Maybe it's no big deal!

Hope so and thank you. nt Posted by Paula on 7/27/2025, 8:21 pm, in reply to "Oh, Paula!" H

So sorry to hear this Posted by Krista on 7/27/2025, 7:53 pm, in reply to "On call nurse came" Doctor Google sounds like it's an infection - I hope they can turn it around quickly Paula and figure out how this happened to it hopefully won't again

That's the killer part. The wound has been covered Posted by Paula on 7/27/2025, 8:20 pm, in reply to "So sorry to hear this" the whole time except when the nurse changes it 3x week. Maybe it was never completely gone?

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