One of the implants I installed last week bled into the bandage. Probably should’ve changed and cleaned it right away, but it wasn’t very much, just a little red that migrated to a thin line along the edge of the bandage pad, and through the clear bandage I could see the skin was healthy around the pad, so I left it the whole seven days before removing it. Then the red disappeared, turning yellow and white and then vanishing. Something was probably eating it. Don’t know why I didn’t change it at that point.
When I took it off, there was a prominent rash in the rectangular shape of the bandage pad. I cleaned it, and tried antibiotics at first. Once released from the bandage, it rapidly spread across my whole forearm. I tried anti-fungal next, zinc oxide cream (destine equivalent). Its progress slowed. I’m now using zinc oxide with baby powder (corn starch) to help keep it dry, and wrapping the arm to keep the medicine from coming off everywhere while I go about my day.
If it persists, I’ll head to a doctor once I have the funds. May just be a bad moisture rash, which is what it looks like, but I’m monitoring it closely in case its anything serious. (A co-worker had a bad rash that got in behind his eyeball, which I wish to avoid.)
Keep the implant area clean and dry.
Moral: Achieve complete hemostasis before applying bandage, change bandages as needed, keep the implant area clean and dry eg using zinc oxide and/or corn starch away from the entry point. Further tips/advice/corrections welcome. Hope this serves a useful reminder for others on how not to be lazy about after care.
Very corrupt, especially in my state. Every few years the regulators tell the healthcare facilities they have to move the walls a few inches, but not before paying them for the permit to do so. The healthcare unions are greedy corporations that use espionage to trick workers into paying them union dues, and employers are silenced by law from calling out their lies. The government is in bed with the insurance companies. Healthcare suppliers hold legal monopolies, ridiculous patents, and charges absurd markups. Doctors have to raise the prices to cover malpractice fees. Closed networks prevent competitive prices. And there’s a reason I had to jump a couple borders to find anyone with a healthy enough disrespect for the law to install my NExT (and the price was so much better than anything the regulated med industry would’ve charged), and in turn why the rest of my implants have been self installed.
Terms I use for it include “late stage capitalism,” “corporatism,” and “technically capitalism kind of sort of theoretically except that it’s precisely what Adam Smith said not to do when he proposed capitalism.” Or in other words, capitalism is dead.
At least in America. Ironically, in communist Saigon, with hammer and sickle waving above their heads, I discovered that real capitalists merchants are still in business. And I would love to visit the electronics markets in China.
Personally I lean minarcho-distributist. Anarchy only collapses into a state of government; laissez-faire only collapses out of capitalism.
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Guess the jolly season has me in a talkative mood today?
