Exactly What Happened

On August 31, the eighth day of Fio replacing coumadin with lovenox, Dr. Dawn Buckingham lifted Fiorella's drooping eyelids.  Fio had her stitches out on Tuesday, then started bleeding the next day because she had gotten the area wet, which she wasn't supposed to do. Husband drove Fio back to Austin, and Dr. Buckingham stitched her up again, this time with self-dissoving sutures. However, that evening Fio started bleeding yet again, and Husband had to wrap a pressure bandage around her head to stop the steady drip, then droveher to the local ER when she went into a half faint from blood loss. The ER washed a day's worth of blood off her, and wound a tight, painful wrap around her head that covered both her eyes, inciting her ever-preset claustrophobia so she was panting heavy and drumming her hands on it toward the end of her thirty minutes. But when the bleeding stopped, the ER sent Fio home. In Austin the next day, Dr. Buckingham okayed Fior, but gave her strict instructions to take in easy, which is hard for Fio to do.

Fiorella had her final visit with Dr. Buckingham yesterday, Tuesday, the 12th, and is happy to report that she is recovering quickly, although her facial bruising will get worse before it gets better. Of course, Fio befing Fio, she has taken selfies of herself along the way and posted them all over Facebook. Hope you've enjoyed them.