Potter / Taft Family Info: Sara's condition

Sara woke up at 3 am in excruciating pain and had Andrew take her to the emergency room.

When she got there they waited for an 1 1/2 because this hospital is not the finest example of health care systems and it is my firm belief that the flunk outs from medical school and nursing school end up in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. As it turns out the ER doctor and Sara's Dr. have a bad history where they don't agree with each other so it gave him great pleasure to wake her up.

The ER doctor told her if she was his wife he would have had her back in the OR to open her up and completely drain her but Sara had a strong intuition this was not a good idea especially because had she done this Mary would have been taken away from her, because Sara would have to be put in complete isolation and you might as well rip out her heart.

Although if it had to happen it would have to happen for her health sake, although her mother in law had been treated by this ER doctor at one time and she wasn't a fan.

He also told her that one of the medications she was taking was hurting Mary's cartilage but again she felt this was incorrect. She spoke with her doctor on the phone and her doctor said she could do what she wanted, but if it was up to her she would wait until she could see her, so Sara checked herself out of the hospital. And then on the way home they came a breath away from hitting a MORONIC deer.

She came home and got about an hour of sleep while Mary slept with grandma. They went to her Dr.s office at 8 AM and they had a phone consult with an OB-GYN in Sandy that is supposed to be really good and they decided to make 2 1 inch deep cuts in the site of her Cesarean and drained about 3 16 oz cups of fluid. And this had to be done with no anesthesia because it would have not taken, so she dug her nails into the palm of her hand and the other hand squeezed Andrew's hand.

They then put in a wick which is a foot long piece of gauze in each wound that help drain more fluid while she is at home. We will then take her to the doctor on Thursday and Friday for more fluid drainage and they might be doing an ultrasound to make sure there is not an abscess in there.

The doctor they did the consult with said she didn't need the antibiotics but when they were done with the conference call, Dr. Jackson told Sara to stay on the antibiotics and to not worry about her breast milk because that concern the other doctor had was from a case study that was done on beagles but it was done on beagles in the womb and not ones that had already been born, and the beagle has a hard time developing cartlidge anyway and this is a human baby we are talking about and it was better to have the protection from further infection.

The Dr. did tell her this is a common thing after some C-Sections but this is the worse case she has ever seen, but for those of you that know Sara personally she always ends up with the worse case Scenario.

Anyways Mom & I are staying with Sara and Mary until Sunday and we ask for lots of prayers that my sweet sister heals and gets to feel like herself again.

I have attached pictures for you to share in, including Mary's 1st bath.

Hugs to all

Marilee