So the surgery went well I suppose. They took 23cm and now I can eat anything (although I can't really for now because the healing process requires no fiber, but otherwise I can eat cool stuff like pasta or pizza now or even chocolate or coke). When all the funny healing stuff is done I'm going to start on Remicade which are 3-4 hour IV infusions once every 6-8 weeks as a preventative measure to keep my crohn's from coming back. If I just take a day off to get an infusion 6 times a year and that means not taking any pills on a daily basis or limited diets or pain problems than I'm totally ok with that. Hopefully it doesn't cost 10k a year or something, but considering they are lengthy IV sessions in a hospital it's probably expensive.
Any how, in regards to the funny healing stuff I was doing ok with the cut being swollen and sore and the vicidin being my friend to keep me able to walk around and enjoy life until this past weekend when the cut started pouring out dark blood
I called the surgeon and he said to go in on monday and not worry about the bleeding. So after bleeding on/off all weekend I went up to LA again to see the surgeon today and he said I had some sort of hemotosis or something where all the old blood had swollen up so he cut open the wound and drained the old blood out and is now letting the wound heal from the inside. This means he stuffed a wet guaze with disinfectent inside the open wound and then taped a piece of big guaze over it to cover it. Now a nurse is going to come to my house and remove the packed in wet guaze and pack in a new wet guaze twice a day until the wound has closed up completely. The doc said this will take about 3 weeks. He gave me lots of vicodin and said I can live normally and the pain should lessen each day as the wound heals up. He said it's not a big deal because it's just a deep skin wound and above the internal organs so it's not like the internal organs are going to fall out. Still he said it's going to look nasty so it's better if I let a nurse deal with it for at least the start.
The doctor's office had a really hard time finding a nurse service that could be available anytime soon. But eventually they found one that could start tomorrow morning. So the doc said not to worry about changing it tonight and just sleep on it and tomorrow change it out.
So yeah I'm sort of back to square 1 on the healing despite it being 2 weeks in, but hopefully this time things should heal smoothly and not swollen and sore and full of pain. I'll see how I'm doing after a few days of this and maybe if it's not big deal I'll be out and about driving and shopping and having fun later this week like I was just starting to do again on fri/sat before the whole bleeding ordeal. Otherwise I'll just sit around home and watch "obtained" video files and play DS and crappy Star Ocean.
