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[Limpy]

Good Luck   

[purplenanny]

Thank you Limpy. x x

[Taz2]

Good luck from me too - soon be over and you'll be telling us all about it.

Taz x 

[purplenanny]

Thank you Taz. x x

Decided to take a sleeping pill otherwise I will be awake all night. Hope it is the right decision...oh well, too late now.

[littleminnie]

Good luck PN. 

[purplenanny]

Hi everyone.
Well,  I survived! I would not wish to repeat the experience but coped better than I thought.

lovely surgeon, really took his time and his team of 5 nurses were very friendly. He had a Hso(?)
with him who asked loads of questions which I found really interesting. It made me realise how exoerienced the surgeon is, but moreso how passionate he is with his work.

The worst part was the 5 injections, even after numbing gel. He worked for about 50 mins and removed an amount just bit bigger than a 50p piece. Lots of internal disolvable stitching. Outside stitches traditional (apparently better healing) to be removed in 10 days. Scar is from under eye to just above chin, zig zagged as less noticeable when healed than a straight line

Will be about a year before fading. Next big step is dressings off in 4 days!!!

feeling tired now and a little bit sick.

Thanks for all your support ladies, you are great. PN x x

[CLKD]

SHO? senior house office 

Glad you survived! 

[purplenanny]

Hso ?

[CLKD]

That's a new one to me  (House officer?) which is nearly a Registrar

[honeybun]

 

Well done you. You are so brave.
Now, we will all tell you the same. Get those feet up and do nothing. No matter how brave it's a shock to the system.
Get the Bio Oil on order so when you are fully healed you can use it. Ask your doc of course. It really helped my burn scar.

 

Honeyb
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[Joyce]

 

Well done. Feet up. Usually have to massage the areas after a while to help prevent scarring & bio oil is good for that, but nurse will keep you right with regards to that once your stitches are removed.

[ariadne]

Well done. I wish you a good recovery 

Ariadne xx

[Limpy]

Look after yourself, take it easy.
Don't do too much, until everything is healed. Even after the stitches are removed.

[purplenanny]

Thanks for all your good wishes and advice. I have rested since coming home.

It is now very sore and I am taking pain killers for the night time.

can anyone help please, the dressings have become sodden with blood and it is worrying me. The surgeon put wide steri strips over the wound once he stitched it. Then went on to his next patient. The nurse then added 2 waterproof dressings, one overlapping the other.

she said the usual surgeon she works with always does this. But she placed the sticky bit on top of the strips so if I take them off they will also come off. I am sure it cant be good to have all this blood on the wound.
she said to leave everything on for 4 days

any suggestions? PN x x

[honeybun]

I would leave it well alone for tonight. Put a very clean towel on your pillow just in case you turn over in your sleep.
In the morning call your district nurse and ask her to call in and re dress it if she think it needs it.

Really better not to try anything at night. Or you could call NHS 24 and ask for some advice.


Honeyb
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