[zenacity]

Hi – Just wanted to update everyone. Thanks for all of your input. So I had another surgery 3 weeks ago. This was a laparoscopic exploratory surgery to get in there and determine the root cause. Basically they went in to my abdomen by making 3 additional incisions on the right side. This was to allow the camera and tools to be inserted. Once they got in there, they had to cut away part of my omentum and remove a bunch of scar tissue. After they removed the scar tissue, they found a small area of calcium deposit which seemed to cause an abscess to form. They removed the calcium deposit as well as the abscess and the infected tissue. Then they sewed me all back up. I am still healing from the surgery and now I have more pain on the new incision sites. They tell me that this was the problem and I should heal up soon. I’ll let you know how it goes!

[zenacity]

Thanks for your responses. I have not visited a wound care clinic yet. As far as packing the wound, yes – every time they did a surgery I packed the wound until it healed. For some reason there seems to be hypergranulated tissue all the way down the tunnel to the abdominal wall. It’s a very small tunnel but this hypergranulated tissue seems to be preventing the tunnel from closing up. The keep burning it off every couple of weeks with silver nitrate but it just keeps coming back.