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Why After a Week is my Drain Fluid Color Dark Dark Red and Running Freely? Should I Worry? (photo)

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Am I Losing Too Much Blood?I had a tummy tuck on the 6th and it is the 12th and I am still running dark dark red blood. The first week it was a light bright red and clotting a lot. I took a warm shower yesterday and really drained my line good cleaned everthing and changed bandages. And it started flowing dark red slughtly thick blood. It's about 30 cc's every 3 hours. I only have one drain also. I'm small so my dr chose one drain. The office is closed until mon. And I'm freaking out. I don't want to goto to the ER either.

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