Today is 7 days post-accident. While my physical recuperation is progressing, I found out that open wounds take far longer to heal than a mere week. I switched from wound dressing to regular bandage yesterday. The wound appeared to be okay, but today I found weird stains popping up on my jeans in the right knee area. At first I thought I spilled something, but then I realized that the stain's source was inside my jeans. Sure enough, there was drainage from my Band-Aid. LOVELY.
I didn't have any spare bandage with me, so for the rest of the day I was relegated to leaving my jeans in a biohazard state. All I hoped was that people would think I spilled cranberry juice on my knee. Good thing the company that took us out to lunch today only saw me from the knee up. Otherwise it would've been pretty embarrassing. "Oh that? It's just a little spotting. You know, THAT time of the month." MmmmHmm...
I'm also having a hard time scrubbing off the adhesives from the tape I used over the last week to hold together the wound dressing. So all those fuzzies you see on the photo above are not dust bunnies that decided to make themselves home on my leg. Also, those bandages are only a placeholder until I can find something more substantial. I'm guessing that these small bandages will only be able to absorb 2 hours' worth of drainage. The pads on the bandage are barely covering the wounds.
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