End of week 10 post op
Well, on Wednesday I went to see my consultant knowing that I’d likely come away having been pronounced healed. He thought that would be the case and had told me two weeks previous that he would probably be discharging me. Sure enough when he looked at my wound, he declared that it was looking good and I didn’t need a dressing any more, I shouldn’t have any further problems and he would check in with me in six weeks time to see that all was well.
I went home with a spring in my step which had evaporated by the next day. I already had appointments booked at my GP’s surgery for Thursday and Friday so went along to see the nurse anyway, mostly to say thank you for looking after me but also to check that she was happy with my wound as well. I was a bit surprised when she told me that my wound wasn’t looking too good, there was bleeding and discharge and she could see granulation tissue, rather than skin in the middle. Sure enough when I got home and looked at it, it looked quite different to the previous day. So it got a little bit worse the next day and I have been prescribed some Tri-Adcortyl cream, to put on it. This may settle it down, but the worry is that it has opened up because of the superficial bridging I had a few weeks back, there may be a space left under where tissue has healed and that isn’t a good thing.
So not for the first time I’ve gone from being healed and elated to a few steps back and pretty fed up. It’s a rough justice to have got so far, with so few problems only to have the rug whipped from under your feet. Still fingers crossed that this is an unsteady wobble just before the finishing tape and not a full on crash into the side of the road.
