The Drain is a Pain!!

Well, here I am again writing about my journey down the cancer road.  It is like any journey, full of new experiences – some that are good and some that are not so good.  My most recent experience is with what is called a drain.

Evidently the body produces a lot of fluid after surgery.  My doctor inserted some tubing into my skin attaching it with sutures.  At the other end of this tubing is a bulb where the fluid ends up.  From somewhere inside my body a liquid discharge is making its way to the tubing.  Slowly, very slowly the fluid goes down the tubing and at the end enters the bulb. 

I have had this drain attached to me for a whole week now and I want to tell you, this drain is a pain!  Not only is there some actual physical pain at the tube’s insertion point, but there is also some other pain involved with trying to figure out how to keep the bulb end attached to my body.

Where, oh where can my little drain go

Oh where, oh where can it go

With its long tube attached

And its bulb full of fluid

Oh where, oh where can it go

😮

I tried letting it hang, hang down at my side

To drain, and drain, and drain

But then it got in the way

I tried putting the bulb into my pocket

To hide it out of sight

But others wondered what that bulge could be

🙄

Where, oh where can my little drain go

Oh where, oh where can it go

With its long tube attached

Its bulb full of fluid

Oh where, oh where can it go

The drain is a pain!!! 😀

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