Middle of week 8 post op
Well, the report from my nurses at the surgery is that it’s getting quite close to healed now. “A couple of weeks” was the verdict. I am going to end up with a dip rather like someone has come and taken a dessert spoonful of flesh out of my bum, which I suppose is not dissimilar to what has happened. Skin is beginning to form on top of the bits most healed and there is just a small portion in the middle of the wound which is still open and needs packing mainly to bring it up to a level where a dressing can sensibly be applied. So I’m off to see my consultant this afternoon and am expecting that he may change what is being used to dress it because it was discussed last week but eventually decided to leave it alone since it seemed to be working.
I went to a meeting about an hour’s drive away with work yesterday and that was ok, just a little uncomfortable after sitting for most of the 3 hours that the round trip took. So life is definitely returning to normal slowly. Incidentally I went to another wine tasting at the weekend and managed to completely avoid even getting slightly drunk, which I thing owed as much to the fact that most of the wine was truly horrible rather than a steely resolve on my part.
