Day 4 - The Dressings come off!

Ok so a before shot...

After the dressing came off. Mmm tasty right?

Tis quite large and red. But this is good, it is healing. I don't have any photos of the wound when cleaned of the dead tissue on top. but it was healthy and clean

And a shot of me in the nurses' office

There's a hole in your leg, dear Charles, dear Charles, there's a whole in your leg, dear Charles a hole.

So i pulled off the dressing i did when i got home because i was concerned about how soaked it had become, and thought i could redress it with some of the dressing pack materials i had from Nursing. However the combines i had were not large enough or were over their use by date. So by the time I had already pulled it off and disposed of my non-adhesive dry dressing I had come to realise that i probably couldn't re-dress my wound. What followed was a very painful night for some unknown reason. But the next day i went to the Med centre and got this.
And so i present to you
Day 2

This is a couple of gelonets (the yellowy things that currently look like they have a giant bubble of either air or pus under it) and several tegaderms.
There are more than there should be due to the fact that the dressing began leaking during the day. Yay excess exudate!
No it wasn't pus, just plasma mixed with gel.
still quite the painful though.

Day 3
Right so i've had the dressing on a whole 24 hours... and the exudate has gradually changed colour from yellow to ochre to now red. I suspect i may have rubbed and bumped my wound against a bit too much at work tonight. Still... I'll probably need to visit the med centre again to get it re-dressed tomorrow which will be a pian since i don't have the time to do it
Anyway without further ado, my leg on day 3 in pictorial form

The bandage is there to catch exudate (more commonly known as oooze)
I wonder how its going underneath the dressings. Will find out when I get it changed

Bicycle! Bicycle!

I fell off of my Bicycle, Bicycle! BICYCLE!
ok enough queen pastiche. So yeah i fell off my bike on the corner of Thomas and Abercrombie on Monday (1-2-10). Basically I was trying to get onto the sidewalk via a driveway which had a bit of a lip. A pedestrian came around the corner which made the amount of space i had to work with a lot tighter. So i tried to get onto the side walk with a more acute angle. My front wheel got over the lip alright but my back wheel caught the lip and my bike (being top heavy with me on it) fell over with my left leg underneath it and slid along the path for a short distance.

The result. This

which is how it looked after it was cleaned up
And this is how it looked when i dressed it with stuff from the wentworth pharmacy and the Biochem and Microbio Building level 5 first aid kit

So in coming posts we will be tracking the healing process or anything else that may happen (:S)

-Charles