Email with Cilla- Burn
My whole thigh was read from the tape but it doesn't make sense for the top of the thigh to be missing that much skin... I've had duct tape on breast tissue and not had it tear...(high school Oprah things for strapless bras-don't ask LOL) The doctor was so Nasty! I was in the ER and he was on the phone telling me I should be seeing other doctors and that I didn't know what a burn was...horrible.
I have silvadene and outside of that I'm using up some Bacitracin since I already went through the neosporin. There's no skin so I need the Silvadene but the rest of the thigh is whatever ointment I have around. After the bacitracin I guess I'll buy some A + D...
This looked like a chemical burn and got worse the following day or 2 then started to heal and the the docs can't figure out why a drape was put on the thigh anyway or why it looked that way. I've been putting tape over the read area because I had to to keep the bandages on...and it hurt like a sunburn but no skin was ripped off.
I can't belive they tried to cover the thing w/ the TED tight though. Red marks on my skin are obvious so the wound should have been treated immediately instead of hidden for when I woke up...
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Kenneth Daugherty wrote:
do you have anything to treat the burn? Maybe some aloe or Neosporin? Nasty nurses!!! After my lumpectomy, I had a large burn-looking wound on my breast, along the ribcage...you know, the under part of the boob area. I thought I had been burned somehow, but turns out, I am allergic to that kind of surgical tape. Maybe you are, too? See if the burn area has the faint markings of where tape might have been attached. The upper thigh is more sensitive than the knee or lower leg, so it might just be a reaction to the surgical tape. I was wicked angry when it happened to me...like how dare they burn my body! Then I found out a few days later, from more tape, examining myself, etc that no one had mis-treated me, it was just a reaction to the tape used.
I have silvadene and outside of that I'm using up some Bacitracin since I already went through the neosporin. There's no skin so I need the Silvadene but the rest of the thigh is whatever ointment I have around. After the bacitracin I guess I'll buy some A + D...
This looked like a chemical burn and got worse the following day or 2 then started to heal and the the docs can't figure out why a drape was put on the thigh anyway or why it looked that way. I've been putting tape over the read area because I had to to keep the bandages on...and it hurt like a sunburn but no skin was ripped off.
I can't belive they tried to cover the thing w/ the TED tight though. Red marks on my skin are obvious so the wound should have been treated immediately instead of hidden for when I woke up...
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Kenneth Daugherty wrote:
do you have anything to treat the burn? Maybe some aloe or Neosporin? Nasty nurses!!! After my lumpectomy, I had a large burn-looking wound on my breast, along the ribcage...you know, the under part of the boob area. I thought I had been burned somehow, but turns out, I am allergic to that kind of surgical tape. Maybe you are, too? See if the burn area has the faint markings of where tape might have been attached. The upper thigh is more sensitive than the knee or lower leg, so it might just be a reaction to the surgical tape. I was wicked angry when it happened to me...like how dare they burn my body! Then I found out a few days later, from more tape, examining myself, etc that no one had mis-treated me, it was just a reaction to the tape used.