Re: Post surgery infection

[Guest guest]

Write him immediately! A CI has a risk of meningitis that can be life

threatening if not treated properly! You need to make sure that the

antibiotic is the correct one. I personally would have already been in the

ER

Post surgery infection

> Hi everyone.

>

> I am looking for some suggestions or input. My daughter had

> bilateral CI surgery on Monday and I thought everything was going

> well until last night.

>

> We got home from Grandma and Grandpa's last night and noticed that

> her incision behind her left ear is red and swollen. She is not

> running a temp or anything but has been irritable for the last 36

> hours. We were writing this off as teething because we believe that

> she is cutting her two year molars until we noticed the change in her

> incision. We check the incisions several times a day so this was

> definitely a big change.

>

> Then this morning we noticed that she had dried blood in her left ear

> again. Still no temp and after about an hour of crabbiness she has

> become her normal self.

>

> We did call the ENT on call from her clinic last night and he did

> prescribe her an antibiotic. This is about all I can do until

> tomorrow morning when I can call in and speak to his nurse. I do

> have her surgeon's email but this is not for the emergency cases so I

> am not sure if I should email him or not. I just hate being the

> worry wart but I don't want to ignore a problem either.

>

>

>

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is the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to

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>

[Guest guest]

Write him immediately! A CI has a risk of meningitis that can be life

threatening if not treated properly! You need to make sure that the

antibiotic is the correct one. I personally would have already been in the

ER

Post surgery infection

> Hi everyone.

>

> I am looking for some suggestions or input. My daughter had

> bilateral CI surgery on Monday and I thought everything was going

> well until last night.

>

> We got home from Grandma and Grandpa's last night and noticed that

> her incision behind her left ear is red and swollen. She is not

> running a temp or anything but has been irritable for the last 36

> hours. We were writing this off as teething because we believe that

> she is cutting her two year molars until we noticed the change in her

> incision. We check the incisions several times a day so this was

> definitely a big change.

>

> Then this morning we noticed that she had dried blood in her left ear

> again. Still no temp and after about an hour of crabbiness she has

> become her normal self.

>

> We did call the ENT on call from her clinic last night and he did

> prescribe her an antibiotic. This is about all I can do until

> tomorrow morning when I can call in and speak to his nurse. I do

> have her surgeon's email but this is not for the emergency cases so I

> am not sure if I should email him or not. I just hate being the

> worry wart but I don't want to ignore a problem either.

>

>

>

> All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each post

is the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to

copyright restrictions.

>

[Guest guest]

Yes, we thought of the ER but the problem is that we live in rural MN and I

know from experience that if we go into the ER they are not going to follow

up like they should. They just don't know enough about this stuff to really

help out. Of course our other option would be to drive the the Twin Cities

and take her to an ER there and yet I am not sure whether this is where I am

at yet.

Yes trust me I knw about the risk of meningitis. Understand that this was a

major concern of ours since she did have meningitis when she was 2 1/2

months old and that is where the hearing loss came from.

Don't think that I am taking this lightly because that is truely not the

case. If she wasn't acting about normal right now I would have been on the

road right now. And the email is going to him now.

Post surgery infection

>

>

> > Hi everyone.

> >

> > I am looking for some suggestions or input. My daughter had

> > bilateral CI surgery on Monday and I thought everything was going

> > well until last night.

> >

> > We got home from Grandma and Grandpa's last night and noticed that

> > her incision behind her left ear is red and swollen. She is not

> > running a temp or anything but has been irritable for the last 36

> > hours. We were writing this off as teething because we believe that

> > she is cutting her two year molars until we noticed the change in her

> > incision. We check the incisions several times a day so this was

> > definitely a big change.

> >

> > Then this morning we noticed that she had dried blood in her left ear

> > again. Still no temp and after about an hour of crabbiness she has

> > become her normal self.

> >

> > We did call the ENT on call from her clinic last night and he did

> > prescribe her an antibiotic. This is about all I can do until

> > tomorrow morning when I can call in and speak to his nurse. I do

> > have her surgeon's email but this is not for the emergency cases so I

> > am not sure if I should email him or not. I just hate being the

> > worry wart but I don't want to ignore a problem either.

> >

> >

> >

> > All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each

post

> is the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to

> copyright restrictions.

> >

[Guest guest]

--I would see if you can have the ENT on call arrange to look at her

at the implant center (Fairview University?). My daughter, who was

implanted at the U of M, had some similar irritation on her incision, but it

turned out to be abcesses around some stitches that were not dissolving

well, and it eventually all cleared up. But best to be safe than sorry...

We live in the Twin Cities, so if you need any help, please let me know.

Tom (father to Ceci, CI High Res 8/11/03, Dr. Rimmell)

Re: Post surgery infection

Yes, we thought of the ER but the problem is that we live in rural MN and I

know from experience that if we go into the ER they are not going to follow

up like they should. They just don't know enough about this stuff to really

help out. Of course our other option would be to drive the the Twin Cities

and take her to an ER there and yet I am not sure whether this is where I am

at yet.

Yes trust me I knw about the risk of meningitis. Understand that this was a

major concern of ours since she did have meningitis when she was 2 1/2

months old and that is where the hearing loss came from.

Don't think that I am taking this lightly because that is truely not the

case. If she wasn't acting about normal right now I would have been on the

road right now. And the email is going to him now.

Post surgery infection

>

>

> > Hi everyone.

> >

> > I am looking for some suggestions or input. My daughter had

> > bilateral CI surgery on Monday and I thought everything was going

> > well until last night.

> >

> > We got home from Grandma and Grandpa's last night and noticed that

> > her incision behind her left ear is red and swollen. She is not

> > running a temp or anything but has been irritable for the last 36

> > hours. We were writing this off as teething because we believe that

> > she is cutting her two year molars until we noticed the change in her

> > incision. We check the incisions several times a day so this was

> > definitely a big change.

> >

> > Then this morning we noticed that she had dried blood in her left ear

> > again. Still no temp and after about an hour of crabbiness she has

> > become her normal self.

> >

> > We did call the ENT on call from her clinic last night and he did

> > prescribe her an antibiotic. This is about all I can do until

> > tomorrow morning when I can call in and speak to his nurse. I do

> > have her surgeon's email but this is not for the emergency cases so I

> > am not sure if I should email him or not. I just hate being the

> > worry wart but I don't want to ignore a problem either.

> >

> >

> >

> > All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each

post

> is the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to

> copyright restrictions.

> >