Hi, alt1268:

Quote: "You should start leaving your wound open at night."

I think I could do this between the time I get home from work and the time I go to bed (from Mondays to Fridays). On Saturdays and Sundays, I could leave my scraped knee wound uncovered longer because, since I do not usually go out on these days, there is less chance for dirt and dust to get in my wound at home.

Quote: "A scab will usually form first before the skin. It is a mechanism of defense our body has."

I guess the scab would then be there to protect the wound while skin is growing over the wound.

Quote: "You can also tell if after you clean the wound looks beefy or nice a pink. This tells you you are on your way to healing and should stop using the silver."

After I wash my wound with soap and water and I rinse my wound well and after I disinfect my wound, my wound looks like the way it did on the day of the accident, just after I fell and scraped the skin on a large area of my knee. A few minutes afterwards, a yellow liquid, with the consistency and color of oil, starts leaking all the way down from my scraped knee wound to my foot. Then later on, the pus starts leaking.

Quote: "I would recommend that when you go to the dr. you take your own bandage off."

The last time I went to my primary care physician, he let me remove the bandage. Afterwards, I was getting ready to slowly, very slowly pull off the six gauze pads soaked with pus so as not to rip the wound off and injure it more than it already is. Unfortunately, this doctor was quicker than I was: he grabbed all the gauze pads and ripped them off so suddenly and rapidly that he caused not only my RSD pain to flare up intensely but he also caused my wound to get reinjured. Like I mentioned in my previous message, he was certainly in a hurry to get me out of his office so he could see another patient, then another one, and earn more money as he sees more patients. He could not care less about taking his time with me. He was not concerned with the pain or injuries he would cause me by acting the way he did. He did not even seem to listen to what I was telling him about my wound and the way to remove the dressing so as to avoid injuring and hurting me. He had the attitude: "I am the doctor; you are the patient."

Thanks for all the information you gave me.