This is one of those days. Not a day that I’ve done anything different than most Fridays, but a day when my routine/regimen proves to be mentally and physically draining. My very dear sister-friend Leslie just reassured me that having to awaken daily, with a step by step process in mind is understandably tiring. Friends that simply get it mean so much!🥰

I routinely get up in the morning and shower after setting up my ointments, bandages and medical tape. I use my non-stick bandages for the open sites in my armpits, on my breast abdomen and left ribcage and one abdominal pad over the areas on my abdomen and on my ribcage. My ointments consist of Zinc, Ichtammol, topical steroids and antibiotics as well as OTC Zinc ointment. I apply them to the bandages that go in there designated areas.

Wardrobe…..My easiest pieces and most commonly worn items are my cotton tank dresses and wraps. HS has tightened/limited my reach due to the tracts underneath my skin and scar tissue, so these items that don’t require that I pull them over my head, work best.

I also use padded dressings for my buttocks, for the wounds there as well as to provide some cushion and relief from the painful legacy of a significant past flare……Add in the normal things like brushing your teeth, getting breakfast and fixing hair and makeup, and YES, all of this can be, and today, IS very exhausting!

Tomorrow will be another day. Perhaps I’ll have a bit more pep in my step and my daily prep won’t feel like a cruel military drill….but for today.. I’m tired…