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On Sunday, the 20th, Lois got up, took a shower, then told me she wanted that last tube removed. The doc said when it no longer produced 30 or more cc's per day she could have it taken out. For the last couple of days it's been running at 10 or less, so Sunday was the day. She said she wanted me to do it.

The drain tube is held to her by one stitch. All you have to do is snip it close to the skin on one side and pull it out, with a pair of tweezers, from the other side. Easy. Some few years ago I took some stitches out of my self. I had watched the doc do it before and it looked easy enough; and it was.

So I removed Lois' stitch.

Now, I've never pulled a drain tube out of anybody. I wasn't sure how hard the doc tugged on the others to get them out. It appeared he put a little bit of a "pull" on them. I told her to grab my finger...no, not what you might be thinking..haha..and pull on it at about the same amount of pull that he had put on the others. She wasn't sure, but she gave it a try. That was all I needed.

I grabbed the tube, now unencumbered by that nasty little piece of thread, and pulled.

It came right out.

We put a bandage on and changed it once about 3 hours later, then she changed it Monday and today, Tuesday.

She's still walks with a bit of a "lean forward." That's due to the tightness of her stomach. Once the skin stretches a bit, she'll be back upright and shooting buckets out in the park.

But for now, she's already back to running my life, telling me to feed the fish, take the dog out, wash the car, you know . . . Honeydo's.