CS wound leaking serous fluid.

[bubble99]

After an emergency CS 12 days ago I am left with a wound which is leaking a straw-coloured serous type fluid. This started before I was discharged from hospital and I was given a course of two types of heavy duty antibiotics to prevent infection.
The wound sems to be healing OK apart from a tiny (size of a pin head) opening at one end of the scar. The MW's in both hospital and community have advised me to keep it clean and dry and to pad with gauze and tape.
I've just had a bath and whilst wiping around the scar I've been sprayed (sorry, this is gory) with a jet of aforementioned fluid.
I'll phone the community MW's tomorrow morning and get one of them to have another look but I'm now worrying that I'll need to have the wound re sutured. No obvious redness or swelling and my temp. is normal.

Has this happened to any of you?

Yes it is good, as long as bubble said, it isn't a deep hole in there causing the leakage. Better out than in! It is possible if it wasn't leaking out, that this fliud could collect under there and then become infected.

Aw Bubbles, you sound like such a strong and courageous women. This may be daft thing to say for someone who doesn't know you. But, I really admire you. After the horror you have been through in the last ten days, and you can still say oh well, and make the most of your leaky wound... And bless little Elijah for being ther with his mummy.

bubble, I had this. As long as the wound isn't getting more sore, or red and angry, "it's better out than in". I was advised to put a couple of drops of tea tree oil in my bath by our Comm. MW and that seemed to do the trick (but may well have coincided with it getting better spontaneously!). My CS wound is a lot larger than most because of technical difficulties with my op, and i was told that the cavity for blood etc to collect in was larger than most, so not surprising that the body can't absorb it all.

Hope you're feeling better soon.

Thanks uwila

I find it so much easier to "talk" to you guys. If I crumple it doesn't matter as I can go away from the keyboard and come back. I've been avoiding the 'phone since we got home as any (well meant) sympathy has me sobbing in seconds.

Bubble

One thing that I did was to write a letter telling everyone what had happened to my DTs

We photocopied it and sent it to absolutely everybody we knew and all the ones on Christmas card lists

We said that we wanted to be congratulated for both babies,

we also told them about DT2 and his treatment in NNU ITU and how he was doing [about his eyes opening for the first time ]

It also told them to write to us rahter than telephone.

Well, we were never at home anyway always in the NNU ITU.

This was a very hard letter to write but was also threapaputic

It let everybody know the details so didn't have to keep repeating it all over again.

So people sent us lovely letters and cards it also meant we could read them over and over again.

Just an idea to stop all the phone calls

Bubbles,
I have a very good friend who had to bury her 10 year old daughter eight years ago. She always appeared to be so strong. She had no husband and no other children at the time. And, everybody told her how strong she was. She used to say that she wasn't that strong and people were giving her too much credit. But I still think she underestimated herself. I just tell you this because I hope that you won't underestimate yourself in the mourning the you will inevitable have to endure in the coming months/years. If you can get up in the morning and have a pleasant chat with another human being, then I thinkyou are doing rather well.

This compliment has perhaps gotten rather more sentimental than I intended. But, I mean every word. Give yourself (and Mr. Bubbles) some credit where it's due.