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Chapter 06: At the Hospital
Day Five: Open Surgery
The Surgical team on their early morning rounds will probably request the removal of all the tubes providing everything is okay and you have managed to successfully get out of bed. This may even have been requested the day before but it depends very much on your own hard work. You'll be pleased to see the back of the neo-nasal tube that you've had since day two. The drain will probably be left in for a few more days to make sure there are no more dribbles of blood coming from the main wound.
You should now have been allowed to start eating proper food, and this will have just a big a positive step on your convalescence as the bed bath did the day before.
Providing the doctor is happy you should be allowed to venture to the bathroom and have a bath, but not until the Stoma Nurse has been for her daily visit, as you might miss her otherwise. Remember to cover the filter on your appliance before you get in the water otherwise it'll fill with water.
When she does arrive she'll take very much a back seat. It will be up to you to clean and change the appliance yourself. She will be there to guide you if you should falter, you will not be expected to have learned it all overnight.
From here on your days on the ward will start to become very predictable and you'll find you're getting fewer and fewer doctors and nurses coming to see you as the days go by.
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