Monday, November 30, 2009

More delays

Things aren't travelling too bad lately. The nurses from the hospital have been coming out once a day to re-dress the wound. As of Friday they are every second day. Pleased to say the wound is almost healed, but currently over healing. I have what they call 'over granulation'... basically the tissue inside doesn't recognise that its reached the top of the wound and keeps growing. It's only small, but hopefully it will go back down with the inodine dressings the nurses have started putting on. This is probably happening because I'm prone to keloidal scarring and have been since I was a kid, nothing major... will just leave a tiny lump of skin once healed if it doesn't go down which I could have cut off later down the track if I wanted too. Wound is likely to dry up in about 2 or so weeks. I'm on my 4th week of antibiotics and am looking at 6 weeks in total. Down to 250mg as of the most recent bottle, so I really hope everything gets out and buggers off before the wound closes altogether.

Was due for a fill last week, but the doctor delayed that by 2 weeks. She said she may give me a fill next week when I have my appointment with her.... soooo cross fingers all is well by then and she is happy enough to do so.

In other news, I have been having some odd pains about 20-30 minutes after eating around my belly button area... At first I thought it was constipation kind of pain, but I haven't been constipated at all... gets quite bad sometimes, not sure what it is.... Just hoping it's not problems with my bowels that has just decided to pop out around the same time as this has happened. My Mum has Crohn's disease and IBS, so it's quite possible that I may get it (or at least have the symptoms at some stage in my life) seeing as it's hereditary... My half brother has it, so it's unlikely that I do have it... but you never know.

I really need to start drinking more water. Pre-Op I was getting 2Lt a day... but I've slacked off back to the way I was before my pre-op diet. :\

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