It was quite a dramatic wound - as they were, of course, because it isn't like a surgical wound.

As for my leg, it has a deep surgical wound that requires packing with alginate rope - seaweed - every other day.

After establishing anaesthesia, the surgeon de-epithelializes each edge of skin by undermining it 3to4 mm, with a razor scalpel, thereby facilitating the closing of the surgical wound without tight sutures.

Surgical wounds and puncture sites get infected when in hospitals.

However, his surgical wounds became infected, and he was bedridden for six months.