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What should I do about my wound?
The other day, I split the heel of my foot open, but I recently removed the band-aid’s, it looks kind of healed, but I’m afraid if I walk on it tomorrow, it will reopen, and bleed out until I get home, and possibly ruin my shoes and socks.
Should I take another day from school to let it heal or take a risk of reopening it and go to school tomorrow?
How deep and serious is your wound? If it’s bad or deep, you should probably have it checked out by a doctor. Otherwise, it probably would be best to keep the pressure off of it for a few more days at the very least (and make sure it stays dry and clean).
To keep the pressure off of it you don’t necessarily need stay home from school, but rather walk in a which in which the pressure is on other parts of your foot (the front part). If you take gym class, have a doctor make a note for you stating that you’ll need to take a few days off of that class in order to let it heal properly. Once it’s healed, you’ll be able to catch up. If you can make your way to your other classes, however, definitely try. You don’t want to get behind this early into the school year.
Trust me, I hate staying home this early. The cut is a bit big, not all the way across my heel, when I first looked at it when i hurt it, it did look deep. I know it’ snot healed cause where it opens, there are still part peaking “hole” along the opening, those can rip, I know that from past cuts.
Pour some perozide on it everyday and no bandaids cause they just slow the healing time your wound needs to breath to heal quickly
Clean it, bandage it, and if you’re worried, steal one of your mom’s/sister’s thin pantyliners to line your sock so it doesn’t bleed through. This is not a serious enough issue to stay home from school, in my opinion.
Why not just get some crushes so you can still go to school and get around
Get some steristrips (ask your pharmacist). They close up the wound and nothing (not even you running will open that again). They are a type of band aid.
Also in order for your heel to heel properly you need to actually walk on it, else it might take a longer time to heal.
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