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Holy Cow Am I Nervous - Denver, CO
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4 months post
4 months post op and I'm finally closing. We've...
SquishyJanuary 28, 2012
WORTH IT$14,000
4 months post op and I'm finally closing. We've pulled out sutchers every week and as we have it closes more ever so slighty. I'm one of the 1% but at least I'm finally closing. Pics below.
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UPDATED FROM Squishy
3 months post
Over 3 months now - the small openings are finally...
SquishyDecember 27, 2011
Over 3 months now - the small openings are finally starting to heal after kicking out about 10 barbed suchers. The big one I think still has a few to get rid of, but its slowly healing. I hope I will heal by spring at this rate!!! :-)
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UPDATED FROM Squishy
3 months post
Here I am at 11 weeks, yes it has almost been 3...
SquishyDecember 15, 2011
Here I am at 11 weeks, yes it has almost been 3 months and I am still healing. I went to the doc last night and you will not believe it, but they pulled out 4 more barbed stitches that were not absorbed. For some reason right in that csection area, none of the stitches absorbed and my wound is having trouble healing because of it. We go back to the problem of having so much scar tissue there from my csections that my body is rejecting the stitches. All is good underneath,the stitches have no more purpose, but until my body spits them all out, this wound will have trouble healing. Nothing we can do but keep up on it. New pic below, you can see they did a lot of scraping last night to help the new tissue form. Hopefully with that and pulling the stitches out, we are on a track of better healing! We will see :-)
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December 15, 2011
Squishy~ I can see the healing! Just the edges of the wound look smoother and more defined and that is a good sign. Sucks about the stitches. I hear you on that one too. But really you can see the healing.
I don't do any taping. Can you try holding on the pad that covers the dressing w/ just tighter underwear? I know that has saved me all these weeks with the wound issue. I just hold the pad on when I use the bathroom. It would give your poor skin a break.
I don't do any taping. Can you try holding on the pad that covers the dressing w/ just tighter underwear? I know that has saved me all these weeks with the wound issue. I just hold the pad on when I use the bathroom. It would give your poor skin a break.
December 15, 2011
I hear ya! I tried that, but with work and the kids I was so worried about movement. I adjust the tape every morning when I put new dressing on so hopefully we can just get through the next couple months. When I wear spanxs its a bit easier to keep them in place. Another problem is they dry out faster if they are not taped in place and I need to keep the wet to dry dressing on it. I'll get there right?!!! :-) You are looking great!
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I stopped packing mine on Jan 1st. I'm still not 100% closed but I don't give it much thought anymore. I don't have to do anything to it. It's still healing slowly as it fills in the ridge that it left behind. Saw the dr at the beg of Jan and he said I'm still swelling and that will go down more. He's right. I've seen it decrease it bits and pieces.
Isn't it amazing that such a small hole can take so long to close?? But it will close :)