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Abscesses, Assemble! (Sorry, couldn't resist.) Update: well, the healing continues at its own pace, which my doctors LOVE, and which I find maddeningly slow. Great granulation...blah, blah....good exuberant epithelial tissue...yadda yadda....easy debridement....I even get compliments on my...

Terriernut and CLynn, Thanks so much--really helpful encouragement. I do by nature try to find the humor, and the silver lining, in all situations, so that's serving me well even in this one. I think I'll come out the other side of this a more patient and compassionate man--including toward...

Yeah, patience is the hard part, isn't it? Wow. This situation has me really feeling down today, and whipsawed emotionally all weekend. Felt great to be able to get an (upper body) workout in on Sunday, but then Sunday night I was just so amazingly exhausted. I guess healing this many open...

She wants to join two to make sure the pocket of swelling between them doesn't get set in. Something about "drainage equilibrium"--think of draining a bunch of water out of a canopy by poking holes in it: you can end up with pockets of fluid that remain right where they are if they are just far...

You folks are awesome and funny. I love it here already. "WasMark1969" is indeed a play on the year I was born, and on a name I used to (sort of) have. Long story, and no where near as interesting as that of the Artist-Formerly-and-Now-Once-Again-Known-As-Prince. (Though he is awesome, it must...

Understood, thanks. But hearing that it could take six months or a year not making me feel better. :-) Hearing that it should take six to eight weeks, or less, would. :-) I feel like I can do anything for eight weeks. Thinking that this may take year or more depresses me to no end....it would...

Hi All, Let me start by saying I'm embarrassed to be posting here and I hope I won't offend anyone: though I have suffered off and on over the years from IBS/IBD, it has been under control through diet and exercise for about 5 years and I have no reason to suspect a Chron's or diverticulitis or...