My toes are hideous. But they're getting better. Today my bandages came off at the Burn Clinic and this is what greeted me. All wounds closed and dry, except Right#2, which finished with a bandage. The nurse said she was being gentle but it felt like a belt sander as she picked and pulled and scraped dead skin away. At the end of it I joyfully, yet very carefully, slipped my feet into a pair of my own size 9 dress shoes (for work) and retired the $17 size 10 Canadian Tire duck shoes. It was a tight squeeze but I managed until I got home 10 hours later, with a forty minute shoeless break at lunch (went for Japanese and had to take our shoes off). It's actually quite a gross feeling without the bandages now. Wiggling my toes, it feels like little flaps of hardened skin tickling each other. The new skin is extemely sensitive. Next appointment: one month. I will be changing Right#2 dressings myself with flamazine (?) cream instead of Acticoat, and avoiding getting it wet until the tip and top are healed over.
STILL open wounds there.
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