August 2010

I know it has been a year since my last post. Let’s be honest though…it takes several months and even years for scars to fade. This way you can see a side by side one year later.

August 2010

Advertisement

August 26, 2010. Uncategorized.

7 Comments

  1. Mike replied:

    It seems to be a bit smaller but also darker. I am affraid you went into the sun too soon after your surgery not giving the scar time to fade more, that is also why you kept the dark edges, otherwise the scar would have been much less noticable. However if you are pleased with the result, that is what counts ;-) Thanks for the update.

    • raeofhope replied:

      I actually have and still do keep it continuously covered. After some previous/post surgeries this is just how my skin pigments. Everyone heals differently! I’m just showing my experience. Some people have keloid scars, some have hypopigmentation (lightening of the skin) and then hyper (darkening). I never go out without SPF 45+ and never sun on my stomach without a towel over my scar.

      • Mike replied:

        You ar right, everyone does have a different pigmentation. Are you now completley satisfied with the result, or are you still considering getting it redone in one straight line?

  2. Lisa replied:

    thank you so much for your blog! so hard to find personal experiences out there and also one’s with a long time passed so we can really see the scar that remains.

    • raeofhope replied:

      Glad to help!

  3. s replied:

    hi. looking to get some work done myself. where did you find doctors to do the surgery?

  4. inkkni replied:

    Thanks for your blog. I also started one w/my experience having a tattoo removed (http://regrettingink2.wordpress.com) where I’ll post my post-surgery pics soon.
    You encouraged me, and I hope people will think better before having ink done…

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Trackback URI

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.