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      I feel better today about my progress and less apprehensive about wound symptoms I don't have the medical knowledge to understand. I have a neighbor whose training was as an RN who is an administrator at a nursing home, who changed my bandage this morning, and described my wound to me from her knowledge and experience with dicubitous ulcers.

      My skin graft is still intact  around the perimeter. It is pink at the incision line. The center that sloughed off is between the size of a dime and a nickel. It is a very deep wound, but it is healing. She reassured me that I am not on the edge of the worst case scenarios I read about with wounds that won't heal, like sepsis or gangrene. I guess it is normal to feel something going on down there as such a deep wound heals. I also read that some women with slow healing wounds are zinc deficient. Though I have been taking a multivitamin, I am going to stsrt taking some additional C, and eat sardines every day for the Omega 3

      somnamblst
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      I feel better today about my progress and less apprehensive about wound symptoms I don't have the medical knowledge to understand. I have a neighbor whose training was as an RN who is an administrator at a nursing home, who changed my bandage this morning, and described my wound to me from her knowledge and experience with dicubitous ulcers.

      My skin graft is still intact  around the perimeter. It is pink at the incision line. The center that sloughed off is between the size of a dime and a nickel. It is a very deep wound, but it is healing. She reassured me that I am not on the edge of the worst case scenarios I read about with wounds that won't heal, like sepsis or gangrene. I guess it is normal to feel something going on down there as such a deep wound heals. I also read that some women with slow healing wounds are zinc deficient. Though I have been taking a multivitamin, I am going to stsrt taking some additional C, and eat sardines every day for the Omega 3

      somnamblst
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      I feel better today about my progress and less apprehensive about wound symptoms I don't have the medical knowledge to understand. I have a neighbor whose training was as an RN who is an administrator at a nursing home, who changed my bandage this morning, and described my wound to me from her knowledge and experience with dicubitous ulcers.

      My skin graft is still intact  around the perimeter. It is pink at the incision line. The center that sloughed off is between the size of a dime and a nickel. It is a very deep wound, but it is healing. She reassured me that I am not on the edge of the worst case scenarios I read about with wounds that won't heal, like sepsis or gangrene. I guess it is normal to feel something going on down there as such a deep wound heals. I also read that some women with slow healing wounds are zinc deficient. Though I have been taking a multivitamin, I am going to stsrt taking some additional C, and eat sardines every day for the Omega 3

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