abscess
2001, 10 minutes |
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TRANSCRIPT
Ready!
Okay?
Open, open, open, closed, open, closed, open, closed.
Luster limbs divides skin and water come up for air, my mother’s daughter.
No part of your body will be over looked as your doctor probes and feels. Some organs
such as your breasts receive special attention.
An operation! An operation!
Many patients also fear surgery’s traumatic effects.
Aleesa entered the UBC hospital to have breast reduction surgery early on a Thursday morning.
She had been fasting from midnight and had an IV running throughout the day.
Don’t know how deep, broken skin...flashing red, pink, purple pain pulsing in.
Her surgeon did not call to tell us how her surgery went.
He cut me open and he looked and when he saw what he saw he closed me back up again.
Her surgery had been approximately 3 to 4 hours long.
Your swimming in blood now.
Open closed, open closed.
We stayed for an hour and were told that she’d be in the hospital for at least another day.
Fear is like a bullet. Fear is like a bullet.
I returned the next morning to find Aleesa discharged.
There were no discharge instructions.
She had a rash from the reaction to the morphine.
The pharmacist would not fill the prescription because of the morphine reaction.
Step over here to the sink and drink this....
Well if you say so doctor....looks harmless enough.....looks like water....well, here’s to my health.
I’m sorry.
The incisions started draining.
The areas became inflamed, red and oozing.
I’m swimming in blood now.
On Monday we went to her surgeon who appeared quite alarmed but didn’t voice it.
I’m sorry.
And its bad, this doesn’t work on behalf of the patient.
This is a battle between them and us and we don’t want a battle to exist.
This should be united work, you know working together.
By Thursday when we visited the surgeon again the wounds were draining, gaping and very messy.
I told the surgeon I wanted to see all the stuff they took out of me.
3 to 4 weeks after the surgery, Aleesa developed a very red and swollen area which after 2 days opened and drained copious amounts.
Three other areas on her breasts opened and drained and packing was inserted.
So I went to the lab and they were wonderful about it....got the gloves on and we opened the window and they were in these nice little deli containers, you know.
Her surgeon could not give us any answers about her condition.
He wanted to take her back to surgery and “clean her up.”
Fear is like a bullet.
I’m swimming in blood now.
She had the surgery and ended up with a huge wound that was 2 inches by 1 and a half inches with packing again.
But I, I was fairly obsessed about it.
I really wanted to see what they took out of me.
Open, closed, open, closed, open, closed.
Throughout June, July, August, September and part of November, she had nurses daily to dress the wounds which would slowly heal.
She was left with tremendous scarring from the surgical incision itself and the gapping wounds and draining abscesses.
The medical profession doesn’t accept this anecdotal evidence as valid data.
Fear is like a bullet.
In September we took her to an infectious disease specialist who also did not have any answers for her continuing gapping abscesses.
I’m sorry.
Layered layers of a shape changing reel.
An operation!
Many patients also fear surgery’s traumatic effects.
I’m swimming in blood now.
Ready.
He diagnosed Aleesa's problem as an allergy to the internal sutures used in the original surgery.
Okay?
Dream purple, red, pink wet scars tonight.
Her body was trying to reject them and did not absorb them as is normal.
I’m sorry.
No part of your body will be overlooked as your doctor probes and feels. Some organs such as you breasts receive special attention.
All I hear is inside me.
I’m swimming in blood now. I’m swimming in blood now.
Praise you who creates both opened and blocked. Where’s the pain colours now that skin is locked?
Open, closed, open, closed, open, closed.
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