Re: post op visit today

In Reply to: post op visit today posted by dmm on December 31, 2003 at 22:04:58:

: The visit went kinda okay, dr says things look good so far. One of his techs took out 2 of the stitches successfully, but cut off the knots on the other 2, leaving the loop under the skin level too far down to pull out. They told me that if the stitches don't work themselves out before the next visit in 3 weeks, then they'll have to take further action. They cleaned up and steri stripped the whole incision, to keep the skin tension from pulling on the one area that's still a bit open. The whole wrist/palm area is hypersensitive, as I expected it would be. They said that I don't need to keep it bandaged anymore, but I am going to for now because of the hypersensitivity at the incision area.

: I am to avoid extreme range of motion with the wrist, but can flex it some as well as work on the tendon gliding exercises. I'm still icing it when I need to. I can barely manage to hold a soda can for 30 seconds, and cant quite manage to turn the wrist and drink it. I tried, and it hurt. So, time to wait for things to keep mending.
: So far, no big issues.

Glad to hear things went pretty well, the worst thing for me recouperating after the first two weeks and the stiches came out was the 'hyper" sensitivity of the scar on my palm. Now mind you it's a tiny scar but it was hypersensitive and annoying until just a few weeks ago and my surgery was on sept 8. Once the "wound" closed I massaged it at least once a day with "scar zone", that seemed to help. I also have a scar on my wrist from the sugery but that didn't bother me at all. It was explained to me that you have soooo many nerve endings in your palm and that's why it takes so much longer for the sensitivity to go away, also you are using it alot.
Good luck and keep us posted.
kitty