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Open incision with yellow/orange fluid coming out. What do I do?

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Anonymous3526699Jun 4, 2017
My surgeons office is closed until Monday. My nurse took off my steri-strips last Friday because she thought that they had been on for too long. Ever since then there has been yellow/orange fluid coming out of the open wound. It's freaking me out and I'm afraid of poor healing! I had a unilateral breast lift on May 02, 2017.

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