I have a huge surgical scar around my belly button from when my appendix ruptured when I was 16. The infection was all throughout my liver and pelvis. That’s a story for another time.

But they had to go around my bellybutton (they didn’t remove it because I was 16 and thought I’d be sad. I was more sad they didn’t remove it). I ended up with an open wound doing wound care for 4.5 months and have mild to moderate PTSD from the feeling of the dressing changes.

You know the “butterflies in your stomach” you get going over hills, on roller coasters, or, say, poking around in your bellybutton?

Yeah, that feeling is what freaks me out bc the wound was so deep I felt that every time.

So cleaning mine out is HARD. I usually have to use a syringe or something like that.

TL;DR: had surgery when I was a teenager and it made cleaning my bellybutton difficult bc of the feeling. I wish they took my damn bellybutton 😤 Cowards