HELP needed for _-FAST-_ healing of a massive blister?

Dave W wrote:
Kathleen wrote:
Down to seeds and stems...again?
Seeds? jeez you are an OLD hag ain't ya?

I saw 14 pounds of some scruptididlyuptios smelling, red-haired skunk
bud being booked into evidence last thursday. The field test showed the
THC content to be of the scale! Man, those _are_ the times that try
men's souls and moral resolve and professional integrity.

Kathleen wrote in message
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Clyde_in_TN wrote:

I MUST be able to run on it Monday at 3 PM or I'll have to fall out of
PT and I can only afford 2 fall outs before I DQ myself from the
Academy.


I am a big fan of the "Extended Healing" bandages. No tape and no
gauze - you just peel the backing off and stick it right down on the
wound after making sure it's very clean, and as dry as you can get it.
No ointments or creams. Just make sure it's big enough to completely
overlap the entire raw spot. It absorbs moisture from the owie and
forms a sort of whitish gel. Looks horrible - if you don't know what
you're seeing, it looks like the translucent bandage is full of pus over
the wound. Leave it in place for "several days" for best result.
I've left them on as long as five days at a stretch before changing
them, and have been impressed at how quickly and cleanly even really
deep, ugly, raw owies heal up when treated that way. It's sort of a
synthetic blister - keeps the skin's own fluids in contract with the
wound, without drying out or forming scabs.
Minimizes scar formation, too. I got a mosquito bite down in Mexico -
probably the one that gave me dengue - that looked like somebody put a
cigar out on my bicep. Horrible, deep, indented and raw. Once I was
well enough to care, I started using the extended healing bandages on
it, hoping it might minimize scaring. I kept it bandaged for over two
months, which allowed it to heal slowly and fill in from the bottom up.
You can still see it, if you know what you're looking at, and you can
feel the dent in the tissue if you rub your finger over it, but it's
way, way better than I (or anybody else who saw the original wound) ever
expected it to end up.
I don't know how well the bandages would stay in place on your foot
during exercise, what with friction and sweating, but it'd be worth
using over the weekend when you can be off your feet, for the jump on
healing it would give you.
And if worse comes to worse and you have to fall out, you've still got
one fall out to spare, right?

Kathleen

What she said - I was given these for the hole in my leg (from end of
handlebar) after I crashed the moto, and they work very well. The gel
surface is the same sort of gel they use for sulturing cells (like agar),
and really massively speeds up healing. Warning! Down't leave on too long,
ro the flesh will grow so much as to form a mound, and you'll have to use a
cell destructive cream/lotion to bring it back flat again.



Shaun aRe

"Sorni" wrote in message
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"Clyde_in_TN" wrote in message
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Dave W wrote:
Kathleen wrote:
Down to seeds and stems...again?
Seeds? jeez you are an OLD hag ain't ya?

I saw 14 pounds of some scruptididlyuptios smelling, red-haired skunk
bud being booked into evidence last thursday. The field test showed the
THC content to be of the scale! Man, those _are_ the times that try
men's souls and moral resolve and professional integrity.

Never all that, JG -- HOW DID THE RUN GO?!?

Bill "awaiting blistering news" S.\

Um, make that "neverMIND all that".

Bill "terrible thing wasted" S.

Sorni wrote:

Never all that, JG -- HOW DID THE RUN GO?!?

I slathered it down with "New Skin" and kept it up most of the weekend
by Monday I was down to a small sliver of exposed/raw flesh.

I'm keeping it covered w/ News Skin and it is trying to heal up by the
running keeps splitting it back open. despite my Sergeants advice to
fall out, I ran on it yesterday and today, it hurts like hell but I can
deal with the pain.

It is not getting any worse, just not getting better either. Today was
an "easy day" on it.. lots of abdominal work and running the obstacle
course (thankfully without duty belts and batons ;-)

Monday OTOH, SVCKED! We ran a mile to the track, did 6 laps on the track
(1.5 miles) and then ran a mile back to the Academy where we ran,
marched ran and marched al this was in close ranks (Us white boys need
help with marching... no natural rhythm at all!-(

Clyde_in_TN says:

Monday OTOH, SVCKED!

Hang in there, John - Friday will be here before you know it! ;-)

Steve

Shaun Rimmer wrote:



What she said - I was given these for the hole in my leg (from end of
handlebar) after I crashed the moto, and they work very well.

Ew. You got core-sampled!

The gel
surface is the same sort of gel they use for sulturing cells (like agar),
and really massively speeds up healing. Warning! Down't leave on too long,
ro the flesh will grow so much as to form a mound, and you'll have to use a
cell destructive cream/lotion to bring it back flat again.

I think that must've been a consequence of the type of injury, or maybe
something to do with your own scarring tendencies (olive skin, right?).
Like I said, I've used those bandages for months at a time, and when I
quit putting them on, it was because nothing more was happening - the
hole filled in, healed over, and it was as good as it was gonna get.
Same thing with the long, nearly full thickness curl of skin I took off
my shin when I dropped a couch on it. I kept using the bandages there
for a couple of weeks after it "skinned over" to keep my socks and pants
legs from rubbing on the fresh scar, and never got anything like excess
cellular growth.

Kathleen

Kathleen wrote in message
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Shaun Rimmer wrote:



What she said - I was given these for the hole in my leg (from end of
handlebar) after I crashed the moto, and they work very well.

Ew. You got core-sampled!

Uhhm, yeah - that is, 'sampled to the core' near as damn it,
heheheheh..........

The gel
surface is the same sort of gel they use for sulturing cells (like
agar),
and really massively speeds up healing. Warning! Down't leave on too
long,
ro the flesh will grow so much as to form a mound, and you'll have to
use a
cell destructive cream/lotion to bring it back flat again.

I think that must've been a consequence of the type of injury, or maybe
something to do with your own scarring tendencies (olive skin, right?).

Yup, olive skin, tan fast - that sorta thing. Also, the injury was deep,
down to flesh.

Like I said, I've used those bandages for months at a time, and when I
quit putting them on, it was because nothing more was happening - the
hole filled in, healed over, and it was as good as it was gonna get.

Cool - those patches really are the business for fast cell regrowth, IME

Same thing with the long, nearly full thickness curl of skin I took off
my shin when I dropped a couch on it. I kept using the bandages there
for a couple of weeks after it "skinned over" to keep my socks and pants
legs from rubbing on the fresh scar, and never got anything like excess
cellular growth.

Kathleen

'Over Granulation', is the term I was given, and I had it on another healing
injury (had an ingrown toenail removed, when it grew back, the flesh at one
side just kept on growing right over the nail. In the end, they had to
remove the new nail and the nail root).......

Cheers!

Shaun aRe