I had surgery on Saturday.

Nothing major. Just removal of an unwanted tenant.

I had a big, orange-sized, angry, yucky, excruciating b$tch of an abscess growing its' new home under my skin, on my left asscheek. Perfect placement. Hey, I don't need to sit down anyway, right? Who even needs both their asscheeks anyway.

But anyway, I've had to have the remaining hole re-packed (big ouch) and re-dressed every day since my surgery by a nurse, and I'm finding the adhesive dressings are making my skin so itchy. I found this last month too; I was hospitalised for 2 weeks with a bad Crohn's disease flare that landed me in the ambulance, and I had a cannula in my arm for quite a while. The cannula itself was fine, I'm used to them, but it was the transparent covering over the top that started causing issues - the adhesive was making my skin so itchy and sore. I've found this with plasters and cannulas in the past too. I asked the nurse today if I'm having an allergic reaction on that area of my skin and she said yes, and she gave me a silicone dressing today instead of the other kind I'd been having, but it's still got an adhesive on it obviously which is, I'm sure, the issue. I just don't think my skin likes having anything whatsoever stuck on it. What's annoying as well is that these silicone dressings like to come away at the edges so I'm forever trying to stick it back on.

No idea if there's any goal to me posting this other than to express frustration and to say I'm looking forward to when this thing is healed and done with!

Best wishes to you all.

Robin.