The Wounds

Soooooo, er.... yeah.  Those "bandaid injuries" I mentioned at the end of that post about the whole biopsy thing? 

Yeah, so um, they've become a whole thing.  When I took off the butterfly bandage I'd used to try to get the biopsy wound to seal together a little better, it ripped off an entire chunk of skin.  I've never experienced anything like it.  It was brutal.  And not just a small bit, like a "bigger than my thumbnail" sized chunk.  GAH!

Needless to say, I didn't feel like risking those waterproof bandaids I'd bought for aqua fit, so I did end up going and tried to stay in the shallows but hey, water, um, moves?  and so things got wet but I figured it'd be fine as the wounds weren't open but, well no....

I can't really explain but it's like every time I got the wounds wet, they'd bleed that night.  YOU WHAT?

So I only went to the pool that once but maybe that was once too many?  And when I showered, I'd really only let the smallest amount of water to run over them, but then patting them dry they'd like get all nasty and upset again and then I'd wake up to them having bled, maybe from the pressure of rolling over and lying on them????

I managed to get an appointment with my doctor as the healing really wasn't going all that well and she gave me a corticosteroid cream to use (sparingly) and while that seems to have sped up the healing of the smaller wounds, the biggest one (from the butterfly bandage) is just being super stubborn and looks terrible.  Good news though, it hasn't bled at night for the last two nights so I'm taking that as progress.  

I did ask my doctor, is this something specific to the skin in that area or what?  And she seemed to suggest yes but I'm feeling pretty wary about things right now in the whole bandaid/adhesive arena.  Sigh.  She figured it was some sort of allergic reaction and so has me taking antihistamines for a week too.

Never in my life have I had something like this happen and I hope I don't have to deal with it again.  

I'm in soon (again) to get the results and to find out what's next but I think things would have been a whole lot simpler if my body hadn't gotten upset by the very thing that was *supposed* to help it get better.  We're on the mend now, but I think there are going to be scars there, and the biggest owie is still not "fixed" and I'm hoping to get back into the pool at the end of this week but if I can't get through a shower without weirdness, I'll just have to keep waiting.