You’re probably less likely to mess with a surgery wound than you are with a cut or scrape. Scratching and peeling at scabs slows down healing. Plus, the skin of surgery wounds may close up, but the deeper wound takes a lot longer to heal. The closed up skin is what yoh might think of as fully healed. But it’s like microwaving food, only the outside is warm but the center is cold. Haha
You’re probably moving your arm, and healing wounds are more likely to tear with movement. In fact early on, that probably helps the skin heal without the scar restricting movement. Also for surgical wounds, there is suturing, including in lower hidden layers of muscle and dermis, that helps hold it together
It’s because you mess with small wounds as they heal. They get itchy, you absentmindedly pick at them. The pretty soon, they’re still open a month later.
You are conscious of a major wound so you don’t mess with it and it heals quickly. I’ve cut my calf and messed with it again and again. It took months to heal. I’ve had wrist surgery and it was healed fully in 5 days. Only because I paid attention to not mess with it.
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