It continues to get less tender with pressure. Hoping that the epidermis continues to close and toughen into scar tissue, and not start eroding and rejecting.
I’ve been moisturizing and wearing a bandaid during the day; I noticed some localized ultra tiny blotches on the surface so I’m going to continue moisturizing day and night, but without cover so it can breath and dry out more.
I just got to try an EPOC (made by Emotiv). It’s a 14 lead EEG headset that interfaces with a proprietary software (the model that allows you to access raw EEG data and use the SDK is about $600 more expensive), and allows you to train the system for various things, such as making an object move, rotate, or disappear. There’s also a facial motion system that senses what facial expression you’re making, including eye blinking, and mimics it on screen (it has a 2 axis gyro, so it cheats a little bit, but it’s pretty accurate for the most part).
We all use headphones when we are coding to listen to music. The downside is we can never get each other’s attention. My colleague’s solution? Nerf.
Holy cow this looks good. After 18 hours with the same dressing and moisturizing lotion on it, it looks incredible. I’m going to keep moisturizing zealously for the next couple weeks. It does wonders. The little black dot is my suture hole which doesn’t go all the way to the magnet but is just a deeper hole so the magnet shows through a bit. Eager for it to close up.
Moisturizing made an incredible difference – just 12 hours later, some of the raw, healing skin is 100% closed! That did wonders.
Happy 4th!
The skin around my site as been getting drier and drier; it’s been brittle, numb, and tender deep below.
At the suggestion of a new friend yesterday, I put some generic Kirkland (paraben free) moisturizer on my finger and wrapped it over night. This morning, the skin was softer, more pliable, and sensation was greatly restored.
I also took a warm shower this morning and the persistent skin flap was help on by just a thread, so I trimmed it off. I was happy to see healthy joined skin below, allaying some fears Linda and I shared about the wound possibly not being closed.
Just a quick photo. Been sleeping all day for yesterday and today; I’m on my way out of the cold but it’s still got me feeling pretty cruddy.
I’ve been keeping the wrapping on it to protect it day and night. I’ve removed a flap similar to the one you see from the wound perhaps 3 or 4 times so I’ve taken the hint and stopped removing the dead skin; I’m going to let it fall off on its own. However, the flap looooves to catch on things, hence the protection (cutting off seems to be bad; tearing off would be catastrophic if it opened the wound back up).
Healing continues. Not much to see. I’m really hoping the dark spot is the magnet showing through my very fair skin and not an indicator of oxidation (i.e. coating failure). My previous assumptions were that, based on a number of other magnet failure stories, a dark spot would develop after weeks of oxidation. I’m not sure why I failed to unite that data with my observations of the magnet in a nearly saturated saline solution; in that case, less than 24 hours was necessary for the formation of iron oxides.
Healing continues well. The finger did very well in brackish water during vigorous activity and use for about two hours yesterday. I had a little bit of dead skin around the very edges of the incision, which I debrided. There is a little more skin this morning as well; I’m just keeping it covered and giving it a few days – I don’t want to end up removing too much. I’ll put up a pic later.
A quick video of me messing around, with a bonus photo showing scar, placement, and a tiny shadow of the vascular arches in the pulp.
