It took about 2 yards of gauze to pack the wound on each cleaning. In theory the opening should have been getting smaller, but it wasn't. Meanwhile throughout December I was still experiencing a chronic, persistent cough and now had periodic gray-out episodes. I was put on a wound vac to help speed up the healing. This device is a pump that's worn around your shoulder, with a suction attachment that fits over the wound, and tubes that draw out fluid when under suction. The tubes are visible outside of the pump and cycle this nasty-looking reddish-brown fluid for all to see.
I wore this device at work for most of the month of December, but between that and the gray-out episodes, I had to stop working at the start of Jan. At this point there was still no diagnosis of my illness.
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