Hey friends and fans! I got my sutures out a few days ago, ..
Added 2022-02-10 07:32:36 +0000 UTCHey friends and fans! I got my sutures out a few days ago, and nothing has gone horribly, catastrophically wrong yet!!! It's nearing on week 4 after surgery and I am continuing to treat the surgical sites with kid gloves. It's neat feeling the fill port just under the skin. Feeling how thin the scar tissue stretched over the fill port is, compared to the skin tissue directly adjacent, gives me new appreciation for how wonderful the human body is, and for how perilous new scar tissue actually is. Since it's so thin I'm being very careful with reaching, stretching, lifting, and motions that engage the pectoral muscle, or the one under the armpit along the side, which the fill port is either on top of or poking through. Statistically, most post-surgical infections happen a month or less following surgery, so I'm continuing to hold my breath on getting too excited that things have succeeded until after that time has passed. I'm continuing to monitor my BP, temperature, and heart rate at set times throughout the day to watch for signs of infection. So far so good on that front!! Speaking of stitches, the attached photos are of my current crochet project! I thought you might like to know that I've been keeping my hands busy ever since surgery, and crochet is a good way for me to do that. I keep jumping back and forth between making squares and sewing them together. I think I need about 90 to make a queen sized blanket!
