what more can go wrong

For the last few days my neck has been really swollen. I assumed this was because of the surgery. Wedsnesday I got a call that I had missed an appointment at the surgical place so I tried calling for almost an hour and the line was busy so I figured I’d just go over there because I wanted to ask about the swelling anyway. So I talked to a nurse who looked at it and said there was nothing wrong and that the swelling was probably because the stitches were dissolving back into my body and to take ibrophen so I’ve been doing that. Last night I’m about to go bed putting on my CPAP mask and I feel something wet running down my neck so I go to the bathroom and there is clear fluid coming out of my suture so I went to the ER to have it checked out because they told me if there was any fluid coming out of it to get it checked. Four hours later I finally get home. I found out that the fluid is nothing to be worried about and it’s something called a seroma which is a fluid filled space between my skin. So this morning I wake up and the fluid is now a yellowish solid color so I call the surgeon’s office and speak with the doctor who has now prescribed me an antibotic as a precaution and wants to see me on Monday. So yea not exactly good news because I was reading online and it says they have to sometimes be drained or have a drain put in so we will have to see if that is what he wants to do. It has been draining on its own so I think that’s a good thing. The only bad thing is when I go to sleep I have to wrap a towel around my neck because I tried to just do a gauze taped to my neck and it was soaked within like 5-10 minutes.

Other than that me and Jess FINALLY get a day to ourselves thanks to one of Kacey’s friends grandma taking him to a circus that is in town and keeping him overnight. Hopefully he behaves and maybe they will invite him to spend the night more often. The only downfall is my brother is over so its not technically just us but it works. We don’t really have extra money to go out and do anything really special anyway but tomorrow we are going to the fair and I’m gonna go on a few rides that aren’t too dangerous lol like the pharaoh’s fury, swings, bumper cars and maybe a few more if they aren’t too bad speed wise.

I’ve been trying to talk my husband into switching to National Guard instead of the army reserves. As far as I understand the National guard is a part of the army but they do more natural disasters and they do go overseas but to help with more humanitarian tasks than fighting and combat type situations. Hopefully that would mean that he wouldn’t have to go so far for his weekends since there is an armory not too far. It’s worth a try. I truly think if the did national guard it would be safer than the army because there aren’t too many hostile areas compared to the army and IEDS either.

Work starts on the 28th. Definitely NOT excited about going back to deal with the disrespectful kids but it’s a job. I will still have the same hours I had last year and still have to do the stupid weird break situation and we are going to be serving earlier than we did last year but at least we will have someone to help in the kitchen. My manager told me to try to call the union president and talk to her about the whole break issue because it’s stupid to have to clock in at 915 then sit for 15 minutes and leave the kitchen at 1 and sit for another 15 minutes. The 15 minutes at the beginning of the day I could be helping prep stuff because the guy that is coming in to help won’t get to the school until we start serving so me and the manager are going to have to be the ones that do the prep and I’m worried about a day like cream turkey day where we need to try to get as many bowls done BEFORE as we can. So yea some major issues involving work and hopefully this seroma issue gets fixed or I might not be able to go back to work because obviously I can’t be serving kids food with a drain hanging out of my neck with fluid in it or have a gauze taped to my neck with nasty fluid on it so hopefully they won’t have to do either or I might not be able to go back to work on time. I guess I just have to have patience and wait til Monday to see what the dr says. Everyone please keep your fingers crossed.