Once you are home after surgery, and brave enough to look at your post-surgery bandage, also called a dressing, you may notice some blood on your dressing. You may ask yourself, “Was that there before?” “Is it normal to have blood on my dressing?” “Am I bleeding underneath my dressing?” “Did I sleep on my dressing wrong?” So many uncertainties after…
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What is a Concierge Nurse?
Imagine yourself waking up after surgery You wake up after surgery in the recovery room foggy from anesthesia. The nurse helps you out of your hospital gown into your own clothes. Your IV is removed, instructions are given, and you are shoved into a car for the drive home. You doze in and out over the next few hours. Is…
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How much pain is normal after surgery?
Are you wondering if the pain you are having after surgery is normal or unusual? I mean, your skin was cut after all, and perhaps the insides were moved around a bit. Maybe you have very low tolerance to pain, like when you have a cold, you can barely stand the muscle aches and you are literally “dying.” Maybe you…
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