This is the post I hit send on after Richard said, “Let’s go.” My computer froze and it didn’t post. We just got back (love that timestamp) from taking him to the ER. He’ll be okay.
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The infectious diseases specialist was wonderful! The first thing she did coming in was to exclaim over my knitting in my hands and my shawl and to sigh that it’s a lost art.
Okay, hon, you just made friends right there. I was charmed.
When I told her I had come because I needed another opinion and some reassurance because I’d gotten such conflicting information, when I said the stoma nurses had said not to change the bag more often than every two days, she immediately said, “That’s right.”
It was exactly the appointment I’d needed, and she wants me back a week or two after the antibiotics are finished.
Let’s just hope she doesn’t google, find this, and realize I’m already looking at my stash and scheming.