No need to look away

It’s not gruesome

This is the leg which has had the skin graft on the foot and lower leg.

The donor site is the thigh, now tightly bound up around a layer of dressing made from Scottish seaweed.

And the other thigh is exactly the same. Trussed up like a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes.

The right leg also has an IPC cuff or Intermittent pneumatic compression device used to help prevent clots

It squeezes the leg every 30 seconds and makes an annoying noise.

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