FOR THE STRONG ONLY... GROSS PICTURES ATTACHED OF MY NEW OPEN SURGICAL WOUND. Darcy, this one's for you.

My wound was left open intentionally. It is packed with several feet of gauze that is packed way into the gap that was left behind from the port. Billy will remove the packing today and replace it with several feet of fresh gauze, and my friend back home will unpack and repack the wound every day. The object is for it to heal from the inside, out. So, hopefully the inches of gauze will get a tad smaller every day.

Dr. Billy opened the port incision to clean it and to remove the port. He also made small slits in 2 of my original wounds (you can see bits of white Steri-Strips) to insert the camera for the laporscopy (sp?) and he made one brand new incision... can you find it? Nope, cuz he was nice enough to hide it inside my belly button, so when it heals it will be completely concealed.

Get your barf bags... Darcy, enjoy.

Photographs by NPM (Nurse Penni Money)

As you can see, I'm severely allergic to tape/bandages, so Penni got really creative this morning with paper tape. Here's a close up that shows the entire area - most of the red is from allergic rash from the bandages.

I know you siad it was gross and my curiosity overcame me and I had to look. It is gross, but not so bad...it should heal up nicely. It is much better than I would have imagined. I'm glad you have so much support and love from your friends. Keep getting better!!

Well on a happier note, if you were looking at the closeup without knowing what you were looking at, the closeup looks like a happy face with bad teeth, maybe that's a sign your wound is happy and will heal now.

PAT!!

Well on a happier note, if you were looking at the closeup without knowing what you were looking at, the closeup looks like a happy face with bad teeth, maybe that's a sign your wound is happy and will heal now.

ROTFLMAO!!

Okay, do I have to reimburse my company for the smelling salts, and the carpet cleaning? barf! But I couldn't resist looking... Couldn't, couldn't, couldn't...

Just like standing on the edge of a cliff, you can feel gravity sucking you ever closer to the edge... lol

Lisa! you poor thing! I am so glad you have someone at home who can take care of this for you. I wish there was something more I could offer than my prayers and white-lighting you.

Happy face with bad teeth....

That's it I'm posting your butt shot.

Actually it looks good compared to what I thought it might look like. Did he put you on antibiotics? I bet now that it is done right, it will heal up pretty fast. You won't know how to act all healed up. lol

Lisa it does not look that bad.. It actually looks alot better than I expected. I hope it heals up fast for you. One of the gals here has an open wound too that is packed on a daily basis.

Well, I didn't wanna look, but I couldn't help myself! I think it looks like healthy tissue, bet it heals this time, girl!!! I get the same awful rash from tape, bandages and even band aids.

OMG, Pat, ROFL!!!

Eyes rolling in the back of my head and stomach queezy ready to fall of my chair It was the close-up that did it!

I'm a whimp when it comes to that kind of stuff but like everyone else I had to take a peek. All I can say , who better to take care of you then Nurse Penni...you are in such caring and experienced hands

Dr. Billy knows his stuff

Hope everyday that passes is a better day for you

OOOweeee, you should show pictures like that to folks who haven't been banded yet, we might want to change our minds. I hope you get better soon. So they took the port out, did they put another one in or does this mean you are not banded anymore????

OMG You didn't have to make that last picture so BIG! It snuck up on me. I kept trying to figure out what I was looking at and I scrolled left then right and yuck I found it ! Any way i'm fine now! I really hope you you heal well and start feeling better

OK for the faint of heart listen carefully........

DO NOT LOOK,... I repeat DO NOT LOOK!!!!!!!!

Here is what Lisa did when Billy was working on it. Lisa is not subscribing to this thread because she doesn't want to, will no, and will NEVER look at these pics because she CAN'T do it.

OK here is a pic of the wound after Billy took out the miles and miles and miles and miles of disgusted, soppy, bloody, strip of gauze that I absolutely loved watching being taken out of her grand canyon hole in her tummy. Then I watched Billy cleansed the wound and nearly climbed in to help. He almost had to push me out of the way. (Saturday as the RN was starting the IV I started looking for a vein in her opposite hand, Needle was too far away I couldn't reach it. Darn NURSE!!! --- I love to inflict pain. LOLOLOLL!!!!)

OK here is the really gross ones. SO don't look OKAY if you are faint of heart.

Poor Lisa! Sure am glad you were there to hand her the pillow! I only have a difficult time dealing with something like this if it was my baby! Other people and myself, no problem!

Thanks again for being there for her. She's in a difficult enough spot to not have a someone there for her. Hope that made sense...