Wound Healing
October 24, 2007 by ivy-baby
I learned from medical school that surgically, there are
basically three ways of wound healing. This topic may be new to you, dear Reader
of my blog, but you will also get to understand and realize that this can be theoretically applied
in emotional wounds too.
The Primary or healing by First Intention is immediately
sealing the injury with simple suturing, skin graft replacement or flap
closure. In other words, finding a rebound to regain your self right away. Depending
on how you approximated the skin beautifully, the end result will be a small scar. Thus, lucky for you if your wound was able to cope up perfectly with
the rebound. As they say, love begets love.
Another is the Secondary or healing by Second Intention wherein
the wound is left open to heal spontaneously by reepithelialization. On this
case, you will let time do its job on you. This may be applicable to dirty or
contaminated wounds; meaning, in really messed up breakups. Wound margins close in as small as 1mm/day, so the bigger the wound the longer it takes before you can finally
say you are okay. Good thing is, you let the natural course to happen.
Third is the Delayed Primary Closure or healing by Tertiary
Intention. The injury is left open to allow granulation of tissue to occur and
then it is closed after a few days with a suitable suture. Technically, you
take a little time first. But when it does not work, go find yourself a
rebound!
It is very difficult to choose which of the three techniques
best suits you. But then again, it depends on the situation you are into and if
you could create the right defense mechanism/s that may work for you. However way
the wound was attained and healed though, a wound is still a wound. It still
hurts.
