Disturbing Development

I'm a little worried. Last night as I got ready for bed I felt along my incision line and there was a distinct bump on the left end of it. I looked at it and there's a swollen spot that looks like it's filled with pus. Not a pimple, but deeper than that. I guess this is what's called an abcess?

I put a liberal coating of neosporin on it and went to bed. It was a little less red this morning, but still tender to touch.

I might take a photo of it and post it.

The thing that worries me is that the area under it, the intestines feel a little tender too. I don't know what caused this. I was playing pretty rough with the dog yesterday afternoon and she jumped up with her big claws a few times and might have given me a bad poke there (though the infection part baffles me). I also thought it could be an ingrown hair, which I've had trouble with, though those are usually rather shallow little pimple looking things. The other possibility is my body pushing out a little stitch or something. It's not a normal thing, but not unheard of to have stitches rejected by the body and have them work their way out even months later.

My lower belly is a bit unhappy, some gas, so maybe that's why it hurts under that part of the incision.

If it looks even the same tomorrow, I'm going to call the doctor and see if she can see me right away.

Posted by Elizabeth M. on March 6, 2005 9:31 AM