Hey guys, so it's getting close to two weeks since my surgery. My main incision has not fully healed and is bleeding quite a bit. Today I've had to put gauze on the area several times in order to keep it covered. This morning at 2am I looked at the area and cut the tape off my appliance to get a better look at the steri strips holding my incision together. Three of the four inches of steri strips were floating on a river of blood. My mom helped me clean up the whole area and we found that only a section a little less than a centimeter was oozing blood. I had to take off most of the steri strips, and thankfully, I had butterfly strips to hold the area together. Then I covered the whole area with gauze and dressings. I'm waiting for my surgeon to get back with me about whether he wants me to go to him to look at the area and fix it, or if I can go to my GP. I'm hoping my GP can fix it so I don't have to drive very far. The area also hurts a bit and just feels a bit weird. Has anyone else had this issue in the past? What did you do? On the plus side three of the four of my small incisions have fully healed, the fourth is just slightly oozy so it shouldn't be long.
Thank you for reading through this. I'm sleep deprived and on pain meds so I'm not sure how coherent this is.
Jeff
Thank you for reading through this. I'm sleep deprived and on pain meds so I'm not sure how coherent this is.
Jeff