Ep. 3 Wound Vac

In this episode, I awake up to find myself in a recovery room, not the isolation room in the ICU. The medical team had decided to reenter my chest to replace the disolvable suiters with wire suiters and found that I had a massive infection.

Instead of closing me back up, they inserted a wound vac to suck out the infection and create an environment for good tissue to grow. That had to be replaced multiple times for several weeks. So I found myself in the operating room every other day while they worked on removing the infection.

We also discuss the mental side of the struggle. The importance of staying positive when you are in physical pain even when you laugh. the surprise of being unable to lift your leg high enough to enter the car and go home, and the struggle of walking with an entourage of IV poles and a wagon with your wound vac all connected to you with stitches, and medical tape.