It;s been awhile...

...since I've posted. I know. Not like I have a plethora of readers to please or anything. First, an update on me and my lovely pilonidal. A few of my sutures broke apart on their own. I honestly didn't even notice those. This past Sunday I had some really bad pain at the top of the incision, more pain than I had felt in the 11 days since I had the surgery. I went to my 4 year old cousin's birthday party on Saturday and I was pretty active there so I thought maybe I was just sore from it being the first time I was really up and moving around. I had my follow-up visit with my surgeon Monday morning. It was a damn good thing I did. He noticed that at the very top of the wound there was a large pocket of fluid that was ready to burst. He cut the top 2 sutures open and the next thing I feel is a rush of warm fluid running out of me. It was blood.

He had told me before the surgery that something like this could happen with all the blood rushing to heal the wound and having nowhere to go. He didn't tell me that he would be exploring it after he cut the sutures open. He was poking around searching for any sign of infection with a sharp metal thing, and I had no local anesthesia. He then packed it with dry gauze. Oh my god I don't know how I did it. He said I took the pain better than most grown men he's treated. I have visiting nurses coming out now to pack it everyday and I may be getting a wound vac. At least they pack it with WET gauze. He could've moistened the gauze for me!

Other than the craziness of having a nurse over everyday, things are pretty much the same. I was at least able to get an extension for the semester to turn in all my work. The bad part is my math instructor gave me no other options but to file a formal complaint. She claims I earned an "F" in her class and told me I had failed certain chapter tests. I looked at the online grade book and unless an 80 is failing then she's sadly mistaken. She also claimed I never turned things in and she "didn't get" my emails asking if she received the work that I sent. I hate instructors who think they are God. They always seem to be math instructors too, oddly enough. I calculated my grade based on the grade book online and I should have a high "C" or a low "B" in that class. I emailed her about it and of course she's not willing to look again or check her junk mail folder to see if the emails I sent ended up there. Good thing I have copies of all the emails I sent her and all the emails she sent me and the dates and times on all of them.