re: Debridement. Ever had it done?

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So, without fail and with a wooden dowl in my mouth, my mom would proceed to leave the house then my dad would scrub my arm. Every Night. Scrub until it was bleeding all over the burn.

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I am getting old and soft - this actually made me tear up a little.

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i let the maggots do their thing.

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Maggot therapy...in hospital settings...is an actual thing.

Wound care puts some in...wraps it up...comes back days later...takes them out. Count to make sure they get them all.

Nasty business that wound care stuff.

Yes it sucks no matter what. It took me about
2 years to turn the corner. I grieved it as a death. I didn’t try to but that’s how it happened.

Yep, I sustained a serious burn to my hand in college...I thought the treatment of soaking my hand in a clorox whirlpool bath and then debriding the wound was horrible. Then they put a whole body burn victim in the clorox bath tank next to me...he would scream until he passed out, that kinda put my hand wound into perspective. I did ask to move my appointments to the days when he did not need treatment....

I've had it done. We were having a bonfire on the beach all night in a wheelbarrow and someone shoved it off the spot with their feet, and me, trying to put the fire out with sand dug my hand right into the sand that was under the wheelbarrow. Spent the night in the emergency room in Grand Rapids and my fingers eventually swelled up with fluid like sausages. Eventually they debrided by cutting and scrubbing off all the dead stuff. Super fun. This is a couple days after and I'd started to heal. Currently no scars whatsoever.

I have pictures of the “sausage fingers” and blood red hands right after they did it but can’t find them right now.



ETA: Found it. I think they gave me an oral painkiller before doing it.

I found out yesterday that a scalpal is much more comfortable than a currette.

It was also more effective.

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I got nailed by a brown recluse two weeks ago. Wound is finally healing.

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Are those noticeable at the time or just later after it gets necrotc?

I got bitten by a black widow one time getting Christmas stuff out of the attic.

Didn't notice until hours later when my hand swelled up. Otherwise nothing else.

Hate all spiders.

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It started in the middle of my stomach and wrapped all the way around to the middle of my back, on just the right side of my body. It was disgusting as frick to look at it.

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I had it this past May in the same spot but my left side. The pain was so bad I could barely go up and down the stairs. Just laid in the bed and slept for days. It felt like the pain cut though the middle of my body. BTW, you can get shingles multiple times. You aren't safe from it.

Wish I never opened this thread. frick all that.