Thursday, January 21, 2010

Doug's incision and tubes (...assuming you want to see it)


The incision is vertical and about 3.5 inches long just above the pubic bone, there are "steri-strips" covering the incision, no visible stitches or staples.

The thin red tube on our right (Doug's left) is the drain and drains into a little plastic receptacle about the size of a lemon, (it's fine and doesn't leak at all). 

The "bag" on our left (Doug's right) is the receptacle for the tube that temporarily drains the urine from the kidneys while the neobladder heals.  It's a little tricky and can leak but still not nearly as "gruesome" as we were anticipating, we think this will be fairly manageable for the few weeks he has to heal this way before the procedure to activate the neobladder. 

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