I was looking through some pictures of mine and came across the only halfway decent photo of my arm before surgery. 
I'm not going to get into why there's tape wrapped around me, but I'l have you know that's exactly why my belly is sticking out like that- along with my poor posture.
So if you compare the tape on my right on to the tape on my left arm, you can see my left is quite a bit larger that my right. I really wish I had a better picture of this.
And here are some pictures of my beautiful scars:
This is my chest, the scar is doing really good. It could be better (it illicits stares once in awhile) but it looks like it'll fade quite well in time.
This is my leg where the vein graft was taken out of (and put into my chest). It's much less attractive than the one on my chest. Post-surgery it got a rather large hematoma (bloody tumor basically) so it didn't heal so well. Not to mention that my dissolvable scars decided to peak out of the skin, and once those are outside of the body they don't dissolve. But you can't pull them out either because they're attached to the inside of your body- so the wound doesn't fully close. The gunky residue from the hematoma is still in the tissue in my leg but it's slowly working its way out. It's got some hard areas and is still a little discolored. From what I'm told it can take a year or two for that to totally dissolve.
This is where the fistula is in my wrist. I'm crossing my fingers to hopefully get it removed in a week. I'll be going back to San Francisco on Nov. 9th for a venogram (picture of my veins) and if everything looks ok the fistula is coming out. I hope to wake up with stitches in my wrist!
So that was just an update. Happy Halloween everyone!
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