Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Day 10, cut cut cut this base!

As I wake, the keloid is very very dry. It's black, it's hard, squeeze it and there's no feeling. The base is cutting off from one side (the back side), it's visible. Because it's so dry, there's a crust to it that defines the separation of the keloid from the base. A crust of it dying rather than a crust of dried residue. Now the keloid can wiggle back and forth a bit like a wiggly tooth.


The first two are the ugly truth of a keloid in the morning. Dried crust which is perfectly normal, nothing alarming at all lol. Just the keloid casually dying. Third pic is the keloid after a rinse, cleaned up the crusting and finally pic number four. After cleaning. It is also showing the cutting of the base. You can see the part of my ear (further north of the keloid) where it used to sit.. now it is slowly tearing from the root. No going back now, it's going to fall when it's ready.

I gotta admit, I was tempted to play and play with it while cleaning it to get it to fall off on my watch. But it's best not to. I feel that the more it does it on its own, the less the skin will be traumised, thus avoiding it from causing an army of keloids afterward. 

Getting impatient to be honest.

2 comments:

  1. I am on day 7 and mine is all dried up hoping it will fall soon . Thank you for documenting your journey, It gave me the courage to do it . It hurt really bad but it’s worth getting rid of the ugly bump.

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    1. I'm so late to the party, but reading your comment for the first time, I am over the moon for you! I'm glad there is no regret.. I really wanted to be truthful when I was talking about pain, no matter how high the tolerance is. Let's get our keloid-free walk on hha

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