Stage Two Skin Removal - Healing!!!

Jun 27, 2014

Well!!!

The healing is coming along fantastically for this second phase of skin removal.  I have a nurse come in at home every day to clean and dress the surgical wounds, and a bath aide who comes for sponge baths twice a week.

Instead of completely removing the lipoma on my leg, the surgeon decided to sculpt it to match my other calf.  I do have some discoloration where the incision is, probably from the staples,  all of which were removed on June 16th.  There is also some hypergranulation on a small incisional area, which my nurse said may turn into a keloid.  No surprise there..but HUGE surprise that it didn't happen anywhere else, since I'm prone to keloids and raised scars.  I know they can be flattened out with cortisone injections, because that has been done in the past , and was done to flatten the scar from my DS, which was done open.

I did have a surprise surgery a couple weeks before the Phase II skin reduction -

I slipped and fell in a McDonald's parking lot - the painted signs on the pavement were slick from the rain - and ended up with a torn meniscus in my left knee.  It was arthroscopic surgery, but under general anesthesia.

So...How am I going to celebrate when I'm fully healed?

I'm going to take a nice, long shower!!!!!  ;-)

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