Day 1 (the morning after surgery, which was the 23/11/2012 in normal international format)
a few days into it, first day of the VAC pac redressing.
today (the date of the blog post), 3 days after the VAC dressing has been removed.
its getting smaller and getting more 'well healed' looking.
Merry Christmas
PS: Subsequent to this post the green muck that you can see on the chest in the above picture kept flowing. I then underwent a second debridement surgery in Feb 2013, and that looked a little worse.
The following image is taken 2 days post that debridement. What follows is a brief summary.
things healed fast with the combination of the VAC and silver based dressings.
There were a few subsequent eruptions but the discharge has reduced significantly , especially in comparison to the first operation (which kept oozing green goo).
My present status (23/12/2013) is that the wound has healed and that so far nothing has erupted for a few months now. The last eruption was on 13th of August 2013
That settled over a matter of a week. Since then it has been quiet on the visible front with only intermittent grumbling in the mean time.
For now I remain on antibiotics (still).
I will update this post with further information as it comes to hand.
PS: Subsequent to this post the green muck that you can see on the chest in the above picture kept flowing. I then underwent a second debridement surgery in Feb 2013, and that looked a little worse.
The following image is taken 2 days post that debridement. What follows is a brief summary.
things healed fast with the combination of the VAC and silver based dressings.
There were a few subsequent eruptions but the discharge has reduced significantly , especially in comparison to the first operation (which kept oozing green goo).
My present status (23/12/2013) is that the wound has healed and that so far nothing has erupted for a few months now. The last eruption was on 13th of August 2013
That settled over a matter of a week. Since then it has been quiet on the visible front with only intermittent grumbling in the mean time.
For now I remain on antibiotics (still).
I will update this post with further information as it comes to hand.
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2 comments:
Well chris that is a great improvement I hope it continues that way for you.
Gosh, I just found this blog after reading your post on the valve replacement forum. That is certainly something to write home about - no wonder you are still taking antibiotics or it could be quite a risk for infection being open like that. Great that you have kept a photographic record !
Anne (paleogirl)
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