Re: shower in hospital

[Guest guest]

This question wasn't answered (that I remember) for Dr. Hess/Oakley patients.

Did you get to shower?

Also - I am wondering about these tubes that are sticking out of people they

refer to - what are they? How many? What do they do? How long are they in?

Do Dr. Hess patients have those, too?

Carole

[Guest guest]

Carole,

In reference to the showering question......Yes, you will get to shower, but

it will be close to 5 days post op......You will get the old fashioned rag

bath until you get into the shower......

As for the tubes you are asking about I assume you are talking about your

drainage tube......Yes, you will have one, it drains excess blood from your

abdomen and it also drains saline that they used irrigating you during the

surgery. This tube will stay in you until the day you are discharged......

Goff

11/05/01

Dr. Oakley/Bowling Green, Ohio

[Guest guest]

I had a sitting shower 2 days postop. I didn't have the energy to

stand up that long so they put a bench in the handicap shower tapes

platic over my tubes and let me go for it. By day three I was able to

stand and take a shower but not wash my hair (of course my hair comes

down to the back of my knees so it is a major task) so they had a

student help me in a chair like they use at a beauty shop to wash it.

For tubes etc, I had one on the right side of my stomach for draining

(it like like a ballon with the end cut off). Usually this is covered

by gauze and changed daily. Mine drained so much they stuck a bag

until it. The central line (which is about the best thing I've ever

had - no iv's poking your hand every time you bend it). And the epi

in the back. That's it.

> This question wasn't answered (that I remember) for Dr. Hess/Oakley

patients.

> Did you get to shower?

> Also - I am wondering about these tubes that are sticking out of

people they

> refer to - what are they? How many? What do they do? How long are

they in?

> Do Dr. Hess patients have those, too?

> Carole