I was like shit it's not that much, but maybe I should go in if it's serious?

Oh

also I appear to have transferred my instinctive marathoner urge to talk constantly about my training to an urge to constantly talk about my wound

Gotta remind myself not everyone wants to see the latest close-up of stitches

My camera roll is a jump-scare rn

i do. Show me ur kneesty

Yakule: I will post a new update only because you asked

I’ve made this exact mistake before and my mom’s a doctor
and hey, I’m talking nonstop about a seizure I had over 24 hours ago so you’re fine this is a much badderass injury

wingedvoices: I MEAN I THINK A SEIZURE IS ALSO WORTH TALKING ABOUT

I'm glad I'm not the only one to make that mistake though lol

I'm pretty sure the puffy pink bump is actively if slowly shrinking so drain baby drain

It's a good sign because the fluid is part of the healing process but also last night it felt like a maxi pad was strapped to the front of my knee, it was so uncomfortable

not painful just. annoying.

I’m glad you think so! And yes, get outta there! You don’t need all that squish!

Oooof yeah that sounds ....unfun

wingedvoices: I'm glad you're recovering also, I missed that plurk b/c I've been doing a lot of maar'ing this week. Here's to both of us doing better.

I will say that the whole thing is not as uncomfortable as last year when I scraped the living hell out of both knees in huge patches. That was a much less serious injury but oh god, when the scabs formed, any bending of the knees was agony.

Aw, thank you! Very much so

after i had my surgery i was daily googling about drainage and taking photos. my phone is still full of them, it was GROSS

so talking a lot about it is VALID

esp for anything worrying like this
(my drainage woes were forever fears of infection, it never got it but knowing the colour is hard)