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General Category => Hearing Issues => Topic started by: tenai98 on October 30, 2009, 02:58:49 pm

Title: 2nd good looking pic of baha surgery site
Post by: tenai98 on October 30, 2009, 02:58:49 pm

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Nurse said it looks great and should be closed over in roughly two weeks...We figured out a problem with the dressing...seems that the prisma needs to be wet after it is applied for it to turn to gel and it has silver in it for healing....Soooo now when I see the visiting nurse, I will inform her to wet down the prisma....I am so relieved that the site looks awesome
JO ;D
Cant seem to get pic to open ....does anyone else see it???

Title: Re: 2nd good looking pic of baha surgery site
Post by: Jim Scott on October 30, 2009, 03:10:14 pm

Jo ~

Sorry, no image appears - but thanks for the update and congratulations on getting this problem sorted out.

Addendum:  Jo - Your later attempt to post the image apparently worked - and it does look better.  Thanks for making the effort to update us with text and photo.

Jim

Title: Re: 2nd good looking pic of baha surgery site
Post by: JerseyGirl2 on October 30, 2009, 03:28:06 pm

I can see the picture, and the site does look better. Hope it continues to improve even more.

Catherine (JerseyGirl 2)

Title: Re: 2nd good looking pic of baha surgery site
Post by: Jackie on October 30, 2009, 11:33:37 pm

Hi JO,

I can see the pic. It didn't show up at first but after a couple of seconds VOILA!!! It sure looks good to me! Congratulations! Looking forward to the next step!!!
Jackie

Title: Re: 2nd good looking pic of baha surgery site
Post by: moe on October 31, 2009, 11:26:36 am

I see it!
Much better, I might add.
I know exactly what you had on your head. We call it silver alginate, in home care. It normally goes over wounds with lots of drainage, and infection. The drainage turns the gauzy stuff to gel.
Looks like it did the trick though!
Maureen

Title: Re: 2nd good looking pic of baha surgery site
Post by: tenai98 on October 31, 2009, 07:00:41 pm

Donnalynn
It was a piece of prisma...it is suppose to turn to gel with drainage of the wound...but my wound had no drainage so it hardened up...now I have to make sure when the dressing is changed and more prisma is added that saline solution should be added as wll
JO