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Hematoma

Day 11 today and feeling quite good. Staples out, wounds closed and most dressings off. A week after my surgery, one of my incisions became quite sore, hard to touch and bruised. Today as I was sitting with the kids, I felt my top wet to touch and 'something' running down my tummy. I lifted my top and a gush of blood was pouring out of my largest incision. (It was so GROSS and scary). The blood was so thick and dark brown/red and cotty. As I'd press slightly at the area, more blood would ooze out ... Almost like it was 'boiling' out. I kept doing this because it became less tender to touch and I imagined that it was a collection of blood needing to come out. I continued for about 10 minutes until clear (no clotted blood) and bright red blood came through. The area feels so much better, my friend who is a nurse confirmed that it was a Hematoma, and that it was good that it actually pushed itself out. Anyone else had this, because I hadn't heard of it before?

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Thank you for the heads up. I hope your incision is healing well now. i had not heard of this happening, but I am 3 days post op and know what to watch for.

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