After a mastectomy...?

my friends mom of late have a mastectomy.. she have this tube or something tied around her waist. purely a curious ask on what it is.. i dont want to ask her, i might be a bit wierd..

please and thank you!
Answers:

Crampssss?!?

It is probably a drain, i.e. collecting any blood or fluids. This is comparatively mundane postop and she will hold it removed when here is little or no fluid not here to collect.

Ok, I am 32 yrs behind the times my wife is 34?

they use it to drain the fluids that may collect in the wound. My firend's mom have one and have alike tube contained by place.

I hold a deeply serious cross-examine for women?

Fluids -- especially lymph -- will reap at the site of the removed breast. They'll effect unpleasant swelling except drained so a drain is disappeared surrounded by the incision when it's sewn up and a platic tube connected to a shoulder bag to gain doesn`t matter what drains past its sell-by date. Over a length of a couple of weeks the amount of fluid drops sour to almost zilch.