Third Time the Charm?

I wanted to share my recovery story with you from when I had my appendix out. I had the surgery about 6 weeks ago. Two of the three incisions healed really well. The incision that was above my belly button however didn’t do so swell. The staples were the first try. After the surgery I had staples to hold the incisions closed. Once they came out the top incision didn’t hold and I tried to let it heal on its own for about 5 weeks. On my check up they looked at it and said it would heal on its own but it would take about 3 more months. The doctor said he could cut some incisions on the top and bottom and then stitch it up with dissolvable stitches. I opted for this option as he said it would only take about 10 days to heal. So I had him stitch it up. It was numb for 8 hours and the medication keep it that way. I woke up on Thursday morning with it hurting. I had a plastic bandage on it and he told me not to take it off until that Saturday. He said it would hurt a little and be bruised so I thought that was it. It hurt all day and I thought it would be better on Friday. It didn’t get any better. It looked like it was getting infected and it was red and sore. That night I eventually took the bandage off and puss and blood came oozing out. The hole had opened back up. The infection pushed open the hole again but because he had cut it more, the hole is bigger than when I had the surgery. I was going to go to the doctor but of course he was closed on Fridays. So it hurt all weekend and I finally went into the doctor Monday morning. They looked at it and said that it was infected. He then asked, “didn’t I give you antibiotics last time you came in?” NO. So he said lets give you some and we can stitch it up again. This was on Monday. He put some gauze on it that was soaked in antibiotics and prescribed me some pills. On Tuesday morning I removed the bandage to find a second belly button sized hole. The infection was being removed but left behind what was actually there. A huge hole. Kind of gross. It is about a half inch deep and ugly. I have added a picture to share with all. Hopefully, tomorrow, he stitches it up right and keeps me on the antibiotics so that it will heal. This will be the third try at it. Wish me luck.