Bimbo and I have a love hate relationship

If you did not get the Bimbo and Betty reference either you are too young or you don't know Bimbo and Betty Boop's relationship.  Honestly, I didn't know the relationship either, but since I named my boob Betty, I figured I'd check to see if she had a boyfriend, and it was Bimbo.  I did like Dani's suggestion of Mother Sucker though.  

The whole point of Bimbo, the wound vac, is to speed up recovery time.  With Bimbo, it would be 3-5 weeks and with packing it daily, the recovery time would be 4-6 weeks.  The wound is large, but thanks to Bimbo has gotten better.  

However, Bimbo and I broke up Friday night.  I have it on good notion that come Monday, we will get back together.  As of right now, Murray is packing the wound again.  

Thursday evening around 1am, Bimbo gave me a message of "LEAK ALARM".  The machine said it was low, so I wasn't too concerned about it.  At 4am, it wouldn't stop going off and I finally hollered to Murray.  We have been sleeping in separate rooms due to Bimbo's constant whirling.  Although Murray could fall asleep with the noise without an issue.  We put some tape around the edges as best we could, and the alarm went stopped going off.  Murray of course went back to sleep, and I laid awake until about 5 and finally went to sleep only to be awoken by my 7:30 pill alarm.  I did take a long nap Friday though.  

Friday evening, Bimbo would not shut up.  Leak alarm, low pressure alarm, battery low alarm, blockage alarm.  We gave up.  I cried a lot.  I showered finally as Murray set up the kitchen wound care clinic.  

After showering, some more crying as the dressing was removed as I have the most sensitive skin, Murray got back to work.  For now, we will do daily packing changes until Monday when I have an appointment at the wound clinic and get it all back together. 

The bonus is I don’t have to lug that machine around.  The downside is it increases the recovery time.  Such is life.  As I’ve told a few people, if anything will go wrong in this fight, it will happen to me.  Surly Sara pouring through there. 

Until next time….