first glimpse of my belly button

On January 6th I went in for my 1st week followup at Spokane Plastic Surgeons with Dr. Buchanan He unveiled my belly button.  LOL  He took the saran wrap off and gauze.  then he asked for a pair of tweezers and pulled out at least 18 inches worth of thin gauze that was packed into my belly button.   This is what was left.  A very red, angry and nasty looking belly button!  

Then Dr. Buchanan reviewed my drain log that my husband had been so diligently keeping.  He decided the right drain was ready to come out but the left was still collecting too much fluid.

He removed the right drain.  I was prepared for it to hurt.  But as I said before I don't really have any feeling in the skin layers.  So it was only slightly uncomfortable at the site of the hole itself when he clipped the stitches.    

Here is what was left..... Incision tape, left drain, nasty belly button!  Still swollen.

Then much to my horror Dr. B asked for gauze strips, ointment and tweezers.  He covered a 12-18 inch strip of thin gauze in the ointment and then proceeded to use the tweezers to shove the gauze into my angry belly button!  I have never before be so thankful that I couldn't feel it!  Tim had to look away but i was totally fascinated with the whole process.  Then Dr. B added a gauze pad over the top and put the saran wrap bandage over the top again.

We scheduled another appointment for the following week and walked out of the office!