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epitome of incomprehensibility
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For the tiny incisions made for_science: sticky tape covered with gauze smothered with a wide strip of thicker sticky stuff.
The thicker layer was supposed to stay on for two days. This was no problem for the leg bandages, but the top layer of the one on my abdomen came off even before my shower yesterday. I peeled everything off, applied disinfectant. Replacement bandages were in a bag I got, but none of the thicker sticker stuff. There was a smaller tape-like bandage that seemed at least akin, so I stuck it over the next-to-skin bandage. But I didn't realize I was supposed to remove the paper part around it. Whenever I bent down, it dug into me. It was only when I went to bed yesterday that I realized. Oh! I need to take off the surrounding paper! That's how it works!!
And that cut doesn't look properly closed, even now. Too much bending and twisting in the ordinary course of my days. Maybe the incision will leave a little scar. It'd be ironic if THIS left a permanent mark while the red-and-white indent from Shiloh's angry-teen-phase bite slowly fades into the surrounding skin. But I can still read it like the back of my hand, because it's on the back of my hand: weirdly, it's a smile. Or like someone dug a fingernail in.
Anyway, bandages. How can a large one stay on a belly? Skin there expands and contracts too much. Bladders fill, empty. Bodies sweat, itch, bend at the waist.
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