I rarely talk about this apart from the trouble it still gives me 2 years after the surgery, but this morning I decided to hold the camera round the back and try to capture something I am even too scaredy cat to look at in the mirror.
The crinkly bit on the left of the picture is the bit which covers the area I get most trouble with, this is the location where it cramps up the most.
I'm surprised that it is still the colour it is, but possibly answers why I still have the problems I do.
This isn't the whole of the scar, it actually carries on downward and ends up close to where my appendix is, which I am sure they could have whipped out at the same time.
When I saw the surgeon last year, he told me that I was one of the pioneer subjects of this procedure which is why they had to cut a hole as big as the Mersey tunnel. Very soon these nephron sparing procedures will be done laproscopically.
Not long after the surgery, Staff Nurse Jess (who was a Dalek fan) saw it and said "it's the same colour as your T shirt" which I found a bit scary as my T shirt was a sort of rusty orange.
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