Serious infection involves swelling; icing existing "as swole as it can go" swelling tends to push fluid into unswollen tissue and hurt. (Hydraulically skinned alive ought to hurt, after all.)
If you had a lot of scar tissue come out, the existing tissue would be stretched to close the incision. Cold makes tissue contract. Making tissue when it's stretched to close the incision and neatly stitched up contract isn't a good plan in several respects, notably on the pain front.
So I don't think your response was weird, though the circumstances were.
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Date: 2015-12-01 08:39 pm (UTC)If you had a lot of scar tissue come out, the existing tissue would be stretched to close the incision. Cold makes tissue contract. Making tissue when it's stretched to close the incision and neatly stitched up contract isn't a good plan in several respects, notably on the pain front.
So I don't think your response was weird, though the circumstances were.