Burns Update, 30/03/05

1. It’s been a week since the last update, and boy does your body heal! Another appointment to change her dressing yesterday, and you couldn’t see any separation in skin layers any more — it’s amazing how the body can regenerate so quickly. There is still a patch of skin where there are still dead tissue, and that part of her hand isn’t healing at a fast enough pace. The Medical Director of the Concord burns unit, Dr Peter Maitz (who has, besides a tremendous resume, an Order of Australia for medical services rendered to victims of the Bali bombings) had a look and it didn’t seem encouraging. He didn’t voice it, but his demeanor seemed to say he was pretty certain a skin graft would be necessary. So, tomorrow she’ll have to go back to the hospital for a final check up and he’ll make the decision then. If it is a go the surgery will be on Friday. So, until then, it’s still wait and see….

UPDATE [31/3/05] — Yay! Surgery not necessary!

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