Incision Check!
Since someone on the HysterSisters site asked, I figured it was time to post my incision photos for the past few weeks.
Unfortunately I stopped taking them for a while since my husband took the camera with him on a couple of trips.
So here is where we left off at week three.
Week 3 - august26a.jpg - the last little scabs on the ends are gone. There are still lots of ingrown hairs in my pubic area and around the incision site. It also itches, and sometimes I made the mistake of scratching without thinking, man did that hurt!
Week 4 - september02a.jpg - all of the scabs are gone and there are no lumps or flaky skin parts anymore. It's a solid purple line now, just a slight indentation from the surrounding skin.
Week 6 - september18a.jpg - the incision has no swelling at all around it. A few hairs are ingrown to the scar tissue (I'm not sure what to do about that yet - you can see them better in this closeup - september18b.jpg). The hard ridge above the scar is gone, though it's still a little puffy there towards the end of the day.
All the incision photos are taken in the morning after I shower. I'm probably holding in my belly a little bit too, mostly so the light will get on the incision properly for the photo. The swelly belly isn't that bad. The pants that I wear in the morning a usually a little tight towards evening. I figure on my bad swollen belly days I gain about two inches and it usually goes away by evening.
Of course this is all just me. In general, I heal slowly. Cuts and scrapes seem to hang around for months. But I'm also not the type to swell up. I had a ruptured meniscus in my knee a couple of years ago and the doctor was confused that I had so much pain until they did the MRI and was still mystified why I didn't get more swelling. If you're the type of person to swell when you twist an ankle or get edema in your feet, who knows what surgery will bring for you.
Any questions or feedback? Feel free to email me.
Posted by Elizabeth M. on September 18, 2004 06:20 PM
