woundvacuser

I went to the doctor today and they took the wound vac off. They're going to get home health to pack it as needed until either I feel that I can go back to work/school or until it completely heals up (hopefully before jan. 10). He said that the original depth of the wound was 3 cm. As of yesterday, it was 1.2 cm! That's 60% of the entire wound in exactly one week's time! I know it won't, but I wish the rest of it would heal up that quick.

My dressing was changed again, but there was no notable difference in the depth. I had a typo on the width, that should have been 0.3 cm instead of 0.6 cm. My home health nurse was really surprised that the doctor put me on a wound vac since my wound was that small. Luckily, I haven't had much pain out of it. I go back to the doctor in just 4.5 hours to get an update. Have y'all seen the wound get much smaller in depth than 1.2 cm before the doctor took the patient off?

I was just wondering about what y'all thought about the wound vac system. I've been on one since Monday. The size of the wound is 3 cm x 0.6 cm. The depth was 1.5 cm on Wednesday and 1.2 cm yesterday and scheduled for another dressing change tomorrow. Is it healing up about the same or faster than what you've usually seen? With healing like this, on average, how long would it take to make a full recovery?