Necessary Mutilation

At-home weight: 292 lbs.

Let’s see - pain: 2. Some sharper, scabby, itchy kind of healing pain around incision site and where the catheter is sewed in: 3. 

My drain hole (which Tom has checked and rebandaged daily) is nicely closing/scabbing and of little consequences (except my traumatic memories of the 7 seconds it took for the nurse to pull the f***ing tube out).

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