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Hi, Everyone.............Pilonidal cysts are cysts that travel down your

butt crack. He's had so many surgeries in the past (I don't even

remember..... 6 or 8) and each time they take away more and more of his back end

and

send him home with marsupial wounds........golf ball size holes (or bigger)

that need to be packed and repacked daily till the tissue grows from the inside

out. They fester for a long time, eating away at the tissue inside before

they finally break through the skin. There can be so many 'fingers' to them,

that if they don't get them all during surgery, they just start growing inside

and fill up again till they come through. Right now, he has a pencil size

hole that has been draining puss and blood since June 9th. I am still waiting

for the plastic surgeon to call me. The doc said they need to reconstruct

his back end to try and get rid of them forever. Due to his Sclero/UCTD,

though, his body doesn't heal properly. He's got so much granulation tissue

instead of normal tissue back there.

Take care, Everyone.

Margaret

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