My 3/11/14 day scar photos, ten weeks in and then what I did for Halloween... :)

[triff]

Just spotted this forum, I have an extremely tawdry shirt but I'll need to dig it out. For now, here's a few WIP shots of my now 9 month old.

At three 3 days and still very full of endocarditis:

11 days, still full of infection:

Then after 14 days, this happened...

Luckily they evicted the chestburster and patched me up again. Ten weeks in:

I wanted to do something involving the scar for Halloween, about four months in (not that you can see it). Eventually came up with this:

Now it pretty much looks like it did in the ten week photo, maybe a bit feinter. Has anyone else tried attaching fridge magnets top their sternal wires? It's a good party trick.

I'll try and find my mega-tasty Hawaiian and honour the title of this forum with a shirt on photo...

 

[dick0236]

Funny!!!! Keep your sense of humor....it'll keep things in perspective.

 

[triff]

You should see my Facebook album from the two months I was in hospital, equal amounts wrongness, gore and self-depreciation and photos expressly intended to put my friends off their breakfast, staying positive definitely helped me a lot!

Your sig is encouraging too, I'm not really suffering any lifestyle changes after 9 months (and I can still drink, yay!) but you're the same 45 years (!) after your surgery. That's pretty phenomenal!

 

[neil]

cricky thats scary lol

 

[triff]

How rude...

 

[TheGymGuy]

Share your facebook album on here, this pics are awesome! Plus, I need ideas for next Halloween.

 

[nngbwh]

That is cool ! Thanks for sharing.

 

[pellicle]

Just spotted this forum, I have an extremely tawdry shirt but I'll need to dig it out. For now, here's a few WIP shots of my now 9 month old.

At three 3 days and still very full of endocarditis:

some nice shots there

 

[skeptic49]

Great pix...best wishes!

 

[Duffey]

I can't wait to see the tawdry shirt pic.:wink2:

 

[epstns]

Just keep in mind that by next halloween you will need makeup to make the scars more visible. They fade in time. . .

Of course, when you get OLD enough, just taking off your shirt scares the crap out of people.

 

[Protimenow]

Hey, at my age, just taking my shirt off and walking past a mirror scares the hell out of me. I can't understand why it doesn't terrify my wife.

 

[triff]

Aaaah, shouldn't have linked them directly to Facebook, pics are all broken