Day 84

It’s been a trying day. I had an expected but annoying and gross development today. Attention Squeamish Folks … STOP READING HERE …

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You’ve been warned

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The area on my leg where they took the skin for the skin graft is covered in a thin plastic dressing. It filled with blood and fluids as it was meant to do and formed a bubble filled with the aforementioned bodily fluids. Well kids the bubble burst today. Dr. Matthews prepared us for this eventuality so I cleaned up and covered the ruptured dressing with a sanitary napkin and wrapped my leg with an ACE bandage. (today’s photo)

It was quite a mess. It ruined the scrub pants the physical therapy folks gave me while I was in the hospital.  I had to scrub the couch and the bathroom floor after bandaging my leg with multiple sanitary pads, 1 ACE bandage and several roles of bandage we were using for my head. I’ve since rewrapped it with more care and less mess. The hubs brought me home a larger ACE bandage so it was easier to wrap this time around. I of course was much calmer tonight than I was this afternoon when this all happened.

I’m fine and this was an expected but extremely irksome, irritating, annoying and messy development. I called the doctor’s office and I’m doing exactly as I was instructed so my Wednesday appointment stands. Until them I’m a snork with a sanitary pad attached to my leg with an ACE bandage. *deep sigh* I’m sort of miserable, very irritated and quite over my recent circumstances.

In related news … *laughs* Oscar the Grouch has offered me his trash can until my mood improves.