Eww..yuck....ANOTHER NEW PIC !

[Jennyhaschicks]

Wow. That does look really painful.
How long has he had it again?

 

[Lunachick]

First, I gotta thank you guys for all the laughs! ALL of you. Right now it's what's keeping Paul laughing! He tends to drown in misery very easily, and this little journal has helped a lot! thank you

Gross update: I didn't go in for the first visit. So when they were draining it and all that other stuff, I was still out in the waiting room. When he came out 45 mins later I was asking all the important questions...like how much stuff came out? what color was it, did it shoot out, how did they collect it, and I know it SMELLED.

So I wanted to go in today with him and ask all those questions.

How much stuff came out? 1/2 cup

What did it look like? Cottage cheese (sorry you guys) with ketchup and mustard mixed in

How deep did you go? 1 1/2 inches

And after they cleaned it out, they stuffed 3 feet of 1/2 inch of gauze into it, so on this visit I got to watch her pull out the gauze, Maplesky where are you?

 

[smom1976]

WOW.... what a show!!! We need another picture...

an after shot..

did they end up cutting it out?

 

[Lunachick]

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Not yet, they're waiting for it to heal up a bit, then he goes back and they extract the sac, so it doesn't fill up again, stitch him up and hopefully he'll be good to go.

I'm gonna take an after shot when it sewed up.

 

[MattyP]

Good God! What do you feed that thing? I cold swear it has it's own snow line.

 

[maplesky7]

3 feet??? woo hooo! That's more like it!

cottage cheese with ketchup AND mustard! now that's disgusting!

1/2 cup and 1 1/2 inches deep.....really really disgusting.


i showed my kids right before dinner time...ha ha. And I say, come here, wanna see something gross?

so my 3 year old climbs on my lap and my 7 year old pulls up a chair...and i go back and find the pick...and i put my fingers to the sides of "it" and said, that's a boo boo on his back that he had to go to the dr. for, so the dr. could take it out...isn't it gross...don't you wanna squeeze it like that?...(picture me squeezing screen shot).

7 year old says..."no."

and 3 year old smacks the screen and happily replies: "like that?"


me,
g

 

[skand]

They stuffed it with gauze to keep the wound open. if they close it, it will still drain, and clog up again. with the packing, it lets it heal inside out, no refills.
Sewing it closed, they will prolly keep a drain tube in so that it can still drain the infection out.
THe smell was the infection itself.
Yes, Jim did pack my shtuff when I had my backdoor puss thang. Yeah, it does make for a good joke now and then.

 

[maplesky7]

So then I tell my 7 year old...but you said you wanted to be a vet...don't you want to help animals when they get boo boos?

She says, or maybe I want to be the person that stays in the office.

ha ha ha ha.


I say, oh, you want to answer phones and not work on the animals?

she says, or maybe I can be the nurse and give cats and dogs shots.

ha ha ha.

I tell her...but they have to go help with the surgeries and stuff.

she's giving this a think.




when I got my first apartment I had to have another leg surgery...i have compartment sydrome on my legs (muscles grow too big for tendon to stretch, cuts off circulation, numbness, tingling, then trip all the time because of all the pressure in leg...so they cut little windows in tendon to relieve the pressure)....so I'm on my second surgery because my scar tissue was so severe it closed over the windows...well then I get a hemotoma (blood clot) on my left leg...so I had to take one of those big q-tips several times a day and stuff guaze down inside my leg to suck up and wick out the blood clot.

I didn't think I could do it to myself but I did.

I guess I'm not a pansy after all.

me,
g

 

[maplesky7]

...backdoor puss thang.


ha ha...leaves little to the imagination.

 

[Lunachick]

If you could of squeezed it for him thru the internet, he would have been happier sooner! Save the trip to the doc What do you charge?