Holes in Me Tummy

One last note on my gaping wound in my stomach...I think it's safe to declare that it's closed up now.

It has some nasty looking scar tissue and it's definitely still healing...sneezing hurts...and I feel this weird crunch when moving in a certain way or picking heavier things up but I no longer see an opening and don't notice any "leakage" of fluids. I'm hoping my next followup will mean I can take baths and sit in a pool!

To be honest it's probably been closed up for a few days now. I just have difficulty in bringing myself to look at it, let alone poke lightly to see if it's really closed or has some goo covering it. I had that before at one point...I'd lightly dab with a cloth to clean dried blood and crud from the wound which looked mostly closed only to find a thin layer of...something...which would promptly start bleeding. The doctor I went to said, "um...don't do that."

So I avoid doing that.

But right now I'm going around without a bandage over the wound. Touching the scar tissue is uncomfortable still and I have the pains I already mentioned. But progress is progress!

"Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim."