I visited the doctor again today for my two-week checkup. I didn't get the second drain out yet, it's still putting out too much. I did get the stitches out of my belly button, however, and he also clipped off those foot-long (ok, maybe three inches) suture ends coming out of my front and hips. He ripped off the steri-strips from my hips, and I got my first good look at the incision area there. Not bad, but definitely lumpy. The doctor says it looks like that because I'm lumpy. Great.

He debrided the open incision area at the front juncture. Went at it big-time with scissors and scalpel and everything. It's a good thing I'm still so numb there. I didn't feel a thing, felt like I'd been anesthetized. It seems a lot bigger now, but it will probably heal better with all the gunk out of it. He left in the two stitches that are (supposedly) holding that area together, on the theory that every bit of support helps. But he also confirmed that the dehiscence is only skin-deep, so that's reassuring.