When the sutures were taken out of the surgery wound (what do you call that, anyway? suture site? surgery wound? what?), I did not think that this was going to heal anywhere near as quickly as it has, so color me impressed at the amount of healing this has since done in the days following suture removal. Although I’ve repeatedly been told not to do too much activity on this foot, the rate at which this thing is finally beginning to heal is not lost on me and for the first time now I can truly see how this thing might actually be completely healed in a matter of months. In the immediately following days I seriously looked at this thing again like I might have to make another appointment for Steri-Strips to be put on it because I could still see more of the… inside of the wound than I felt was appropriate or safe, and soon enough, in a matter of days there only remains a small circular wound left out of everything that was originally there when they did foot surgery.

That is one way to clean up, I guess! I seriously look forward to never having to worry about this thing again.

Precisely what is said in the subject bar of the post, as a matter of fact: the sutures are gone!

This means that the large bandaging that has been on my foot since the surgery took place is now gone and I am cleared to take baths like a normal human being tends to, which is absolutely exciting! The very first thing I am going to do is to take a bath like… well, a normal human being is able to, and the second thing I am going to do is to sleep like a normal human being since I no longer have an annoying amount of bandaging on my foot. But as stated, I am extremely excited for no longer having sutures still in my foot!

At some point these appointments will have to stop being quite as chaotic as they are now, won’t they?

Each week I have the dressing on my foot removed, the suture site cleaned with some kind of disinfectant whose name I can not quite remember, and then new dressing is placed on my foot. I’ve had to go to the local hospital to get dressing put on my foot and leg twice now because the dressing that is put on my foot by the podiatrist’s office manages to come undone to the point where the suture site is no longer covered… and I really do not want this to get infected at any point. According to every nurse that has done a dressing change, the wound is healing well and shows no sign of infection, but I can’t help but continue to worry.

If everything continues to go well I may have the sutures removed soon and will be almost done with this!

I’m surprised at how quickly this thing is managing to heal. I didn’t expect it to heal this quickly.

I’m still continuing to have weekly checkups (how do I spell that? is it check-ups?) where nurses at my podiatrist’s office change the dressing on it, which… let’s be for real, I need that every single week because I manage to keep moving the bandage around in my sleep to the point that the suture site becomes exposed and I have to go to the local hospital to have it dressed and wrapped again. Yes, this continues to be annoying. However, it continues to be necessary until the sutures are finally drawn and Dobby gets to take a normal bath for what may very well be the first time in an entire month. This is one more thing to deal with.

If everything continues to go well, my stitches will be removed from the wound next week!

Stitches, sutures… whatever you want to call them.

I am so exhilarated at the prospect of being able to take a bath like a normal person going forward!