Grody to the Max

since i am flying high on my Free Find earlier today, i am going to post one more blog before i go to sleep. I love it when i discover mulitiple updates on friends blogs, so here's one backatcha!

Tomorrow i am going back for a check-up with the Plastic Surgery team. I am SOOOO hoping that they remove this bag from the drain collecting the Knee Juice. Its really grody...to the max.

I've got some more pix to help describe my daily routine of care of this thing, just so you can see what i'm up to these days. WARNING: there are two more graphic pix, but i'll put them at the very end, for those of you who don't want to see such GORE.

I don't blame you...i can hardly look at it either. Oddly enough, i can somewhat tolerate looking at a picture more than i can look at it for realz. I can't bring myself to do that yet; its still too raw looking.

Here is how i feel while they have my leg unwrapped, exposed and are doctoring it up....

So, once a day i get to remove this hot ankle-to-thigh velcro cast. My Helper of the Week removes the bandages and gauze so that the wound can be cleaned. My mom passed on the torch of responsibility to Brad and my Dad this week. My lucky sister gets to take over Thursday.Someone has to lift up my leg because i can't put any strain on the knee, nor bend it. It's really hard to let someone lift your leg without contributing. Here, Brad is cleaning off the scars on the back of my calf.

BEWARE: Below comes the GORE: My skin graft, or FLAP as the docs call it!(!) came from my thigh. There is also a parallel incision above where you can see they took out a tendon. Still not sure where that went...but i'll find out.

The second pic is my knee, where they replaced the Cancer Divot with my calf muscle and newly scraped skin FLAP. ewww...i just noticed you can see the drain that's emptying out the Knee-Juice! That makes me squirm.

I'm told the swelling will go down.