Any docs/ideas for big scar healing? :D (GRAPHIC PIC :))...

[Beekissed]

Raw honey! Always.....raw honey.

 

[booker81]

I emailed the Montana Emu folks! Their stuff looks very interesting - and not bad for price! Of course, me being me, had to check out the livestock section....and one of the livestock products looks pretty neat!

http://cart.montanaemuranch.com/Wound-Salve-4-oz.html

I really like the comfrey and calendula in that product - and everything else!

 

[booker81]

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How does one do the raw honey? Slather it on?

LOL - I actually do have a beekeeper friend, who yearly gives me quarts of honey. It's good stuff! Honey is good stuff.

 

[JetBlack]

Those Steristrips don't work on me, for some reason. Superglue either. I had the strips on and they were peeling off, as I was wheeled out of the OR. You can glue my incisions closed and they start to open up and the glue peels off me, in about 20 minutes. Then there's the bleeding and the leaking. Sutures work great, thank goodness

Neuro docs love to do PERFECT sutures, with as little scarring as possible, short of plastic surgery. They even hide the knots for the sutures, to make them look even more perfect. The spacing is so even it looks like a machine did it. Plastic surgeons don't just stitch you back up, they actually line up all your parts, in the skin so when it heals it is all so well aligned you can't even see the scar, without stretching the skin. That's how you get a 3" cut with 80 sutures, I guess.

 

[Beekissed]

Put it on, apply a bandage to keep it from getting rubbed off. Use the raw honey only....the heated honey has all the good stuff killed out of it.

 

[lurky]

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Hee hee hee! I was pretty impressed with how it looked - at least I got out of it without staples! I didn't want those, and this surgeon is a fanatic about his scar appearances - I image it will look much better without blood crusted steristrips

I WILL NOT peel them off, they will have to fall off on their own. The last surgery I had I was bad and peeled them off after a few days, and now I have a keloided scar about the size of a 50cent piece - it was supposed to be a scar from a scope for an appendectomy. Thankfully noone needs to see my belly either!.

I was just trying to make you feel better LMAO........ i thought you were worried because it was messy, that it was going to be an ugly scar. I had staples for my appendectomy and it was not big deal.
Did you not want them because you want the stitch marks to complete the scar

 

[booker81]

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Surprisingly, I don't have PT - I think they will evaluate me at my one month appt. Doc told me to start up with my ankle rolls and thigh flexes right after surgery, and by discharge time, even that wasn't a problem, he was surprised. I even puttered out to the garden and checked on the chooks today. I'm usually pretty good at pushing myself but not too far - this is a repeat surgery to correct a first failed tibial tubercle transfer. The first TTT left both kneecaps about 1" too high in my leg and completely unstable, so he's redone the TTT, did a distal release and repair, medial repair, and really cranked the dickens out of everything. The scope pics are amazing - in on shot, he can't even get the patella and tibia in the same pic, and the repair shot shows them right snug where they should be.

Pain today is good - I took a ES Percocet at 6am and that's been it for meds. I'll take one before bed, but I hope to just wean to night, then none before the week is out. I hate those things.

So, I've kinda been down this road once, but hopefully this repair is the end...at least until we do the other knee (can see the scar from the first TTT on that one).

But yeah, no PT yet, and I'm hoping to avoid it by being totally awesome at home.

Oh - Iceman chests are the BOMB. I don't know how I went through life without it! Nifty little cooler that hooks up to a pad that runs cold water through it, hubby refills it for me, and it lasts for about 12 hours - nice long lasting cold pack. The swelling has been so minimal it's amazing!

 

[JetBlack]

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We'll start calling her Igor.

 

[lurky]

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We'll start calling her Igor.

 

[booker81]

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LOL at my rate I'll be bride of frankenstein - massive nasty scar on my upper arm, scars on my hands and wrists from farm fun, scars on my face, both knees, and my belly looks like a battlefied. Oh yeah, ankle reconstruction too. I'm getting vain in my older age. I just don't want the 1" keloided nasty...a nice line is my liking!