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I'm no expert and not really sure  where you mean but I think you should get it checked out regardless as otherwise you are going to be wondering and worrying.  As we all know, it's better to be sure.

Hey all
Just have a question for you, I was lying in bed last night and was just seeing how far I could stretch without the scar pulling. Well when doing this I found a lump in left side (not my cancer side) and was wondering if you think it would be scar tissue from all my surgeries last year.  Let me know what you think.
Thanks xx

Hi yes I am still here.  I would like to thank everyone on here for all the information and positive comments over my last year on here.  I was up and very down at times.  Just letting you all know that I have all scared but with no thanks to the local hospital but all to my gp's nurse for her wonderful treatment.  I am now in the throws of trying to be put on another doc's team at the hospital, I am sure I have the right to do this as I am not happy with mine.  We will see what happens.  Anyway without this network being I know I would have been very lost as I was not leaving the house and not know but falling into a deep depression which I have now pulled myself out of.  Back into the land of the living and enjoying as much as I can with a few things I can't do. Unable to reach my arms above my head as I have scared terribly since I was butchered so much but hey they are scars and they will now tie into the rest of the road map from my neck down to my hips ..... he he he.
Anyway thanks everyone again 
Lots of love and best wishes for a great 2019. xx

@Shann No, it wasn't me. I presume you mean Dr Fiona Wood. Amazing woman.

If this proves beneficial they'll be making the product synthetically. No need to BYO!!

I didn't have ANY kids & look at me!!  LOL  I married one!   ;) 

@shann

Oops!
Damn predictive text, fat fingers and a smart phone!

The doctor's name was supposed to come to you.

@arpie

Yes Fiona Wood has 6 kids. Don't know how she manages all that she does. I barely managed working with 2, six years apart!

My husband, Ian, in a past life was a medical photographer at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Fiona Wood would have Ian take photos of whatever project she was working on. Ian enjoyed working with her. 

She is an AMAZING woman!  I think she was Australian of the Year after that!  AND she has about 6 kids!!

Good luck with the search - I hope you can get some of the second skin @shann   Maybe suggest to her that you can be her 'project' in a new area of wound management?

@"sharon lee"

The doctor who invented a second skin is Fiona Woods. She used it extensively after the Bali bombing.

She was at the Royal Perth Hospital Burns Unit. 

Annie

Hi kmakm
Thank you for that. I am assuming that you use your own and if that is the case well I am out of luck and not sure I would ike to use someone elses. I had a hystorectomy when I was 39 and they only left my ovaries. But very interesting read.
I have have often thought about the second skin but the docs here told me it wouldn't help me as it was for burns and yet 2 sentences ago they were just telling me that this looks like a burn.  So I throw my arms up in the air.  Trying to get hold of the Dr that invented the second skin at present.  Not sure if it is available over here.  I am seeing a new GP and seems nice but the dressing she put on cost $22 so will be taking my own on friday.  Not sure what she can do really.
Did you give me the name of the Dr in Perth about the second skin, thank if you did.
Shann xx

@arpie Fascinating.