I had the paracentesis done on Wednesday. On Friday, I started having some water discharge from the incision where they took the water out. This is apparently common and when I told my doctor, he told me if it doesn't stop by Monday, to come by and he'll glue my incision.
On Friday and Saturday, I was like a leaky faucet with drops of water dripping every 8 seconds. I put a hand towel around it and it would be soaked by a couple of hours. If I could only find a spigot for my stomach on amazon ... 😋I was doing my own paracentesis's! By Saturday night, I was tired of dripping everywhere, so we decided to try super glue and it worked! I'm finally not dripping water where ever I go!
One of the reason my doctor wanted to start trying to resolve the ascites (water retention), is that with ascites, wounds don't heal very well. Therefore, surgery is usually out of the question until the ascites is resolved. Now I understand why! Even with this small incision, it just wasn't healing enough to close the wound.
Good news is (not sure because of my leaky stomach) but I haven't regained my water weight back yet. I was 102 lbs. after the paracentesis and I'm still at 102 lbs.!
We also got to go painting as a family on Friday night. It was quite fun!
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