Completely . Amazing. I burned my hand badly in December of '09. I was out of work six weeks. The treatment was at time excruciating. I would so love to see this get used more. Awesome.
I'm with ya on remembered pain. I got a second-third degree burn on one breast about three months after your burn and my god, I thought I'd go into shock during the debridment. Not to mention the months of healing and the scar that still haunts me. (Although my scar is fading away - how's yours? Mine seems to be getting smaller and smaller around the edges, fading out there, and I'm hoping it may be completely gone in a couple more years.
I have no scars, at least physically (mentally is another story!). I took exquisite care of my hands, plus the people at the burn unit at ECMC here in Buffalo are amazing, and I got and wore custom-fitting compression gloves for a long time afterward. Yeah, the debridment is awful. My husband couldn't understand how I could do it. One day in the midst of doing it, I stood up and threw up from the pain. And went right back at it again. To think of someone being spared that agony, well, that's a remarkable thought!
I don't know if they can COMPLETELY forgo the debridment -- but at least you'd have to do it fewer times. And you noticed that his skin wasn't even scar tissue? Like, at all? Like it was 100% new non-scar-tissue skin?
This just boggles me. Like most animals, severe burns are one of my fears. The idea that they can heal them that well? Wow.
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Date: 2012-11-20 01:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-20 02:43 pm (UTC)I burned my hand badly in December of '09. I was out of work six weeks. The treatment was at time excruciating. I would so love to see this get used more. Awesome.
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Date: 2012-11-20 03:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-20 03:14 pm (UTC)Yeah, the debridment is awful. My husband couldn't understand how I could do it. One day in the midst of doing it, I stood up and threw up from the pain. And went right back at it again. To think of someone being spared that agony, well, that's a remarkable thought!
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Date: 2012-11-20 04:30 pm (UTC)This just boggles me. Like most animals, severe burns are one of my fears. The idea that they can heal them that well? Wow.
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Date: 2012-11-20 05:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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