So far so good

Beginning of Week 4 post op

Well up until now my wound seems to have continued to heal nicely, my consultant thinks that it’s currently about a quarter of the size it was when he had finished operating on me. So at four weeks I’m pretty much at the best stage I could hope to be. Pain is minimal now, I still find sitting uncomfortable esspecially in the car, or for long periods of time, I can only really sit very upright. Going for dressing changes are starting to become rather a chore everyday, but the nurses are all very nice and it doesn’t take long. At the end of last week the nurse decided that part of my wound was over-granulating, i.e. it was healing too much so coming above the level of my skin at one side. So it was burned back with Silver Nitrate, I try not to think about the fact that Silver Nitrate is highly toxic, apparently it is often used to treat over-granulating wounds and not a big deal.

There is however an uncertain end to this particular post, in that today the nurse I saw was concerned there may be an infection, in roughly the place where I was treated with the Silver Nitrate I think, so it has been swabbed and we will see what turns up… I have to say I am not surprised because I’ve got two mouth ulcers at the moment and for me that is a very good indication that my immune system is working over-time and I probably have an infection. It’s always been the case before. I know my luck was probably going to run out some time but if I do have an infection it’s a real shame because I was starting to think I may get through it without one. Ah well, it’s familiar territory at least.