Here's what the boil (or cyst) on my back looked like before surgery was done to drain it on Saturday:
Vicki kindly placed the loonie in the shot so as to provide a sense of scale (she's always thinking, that wife of mine).
Post-surgery, I now have a narrow slot in my back (where the draining occurred) that has to be packed and re-dressed each day. The Victorian Order of Nurses provided that service the first couple of days, but they've now handed some of the work over to the Victoria Order of Nursing Wives (Vicki), who did it for the first time this morning. First time on this wound, that is... she got very good at repacking the previous boil's crater in 2007. Here's what she's working with this time around:
Speaking of the previous boil, you can see the crater that it left behind, in both of those shots (off to the lefthand side... kind of hard to miss!)
So anyway... if you've wondered why I haven't been blogging much over the past couple of weeks, you should have your answer now. Both the boil, and the aftermath of it, have been quite painful. And the worst news of all is that this latest one has only been drained, not removed. Getting it cut out is still looming in my future at some point.
3 comments:
Hope it heals quick Matt
hello, do you how the procedure was done..so poke and drain? and then it was patched? and do you had to remove /replace that patch everyday?
now i have the same too. did they tell you why its red
did they tell you how you got this cyst. and why is it red. was it red when you 1st got it.
now i too have the same and it hurts to rain the arm. thanks
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