So how's the healing progressing? Hopefully it's looking much better...and you're feeling less "owee" -(and maybe it'll be impressive enough to impress somebody in the allopathic world :)
I just love using aloe; it's so soothing to whatever I apply it to (or so it seems to me). Other than maybe a quick shock of a temperature difference, I've never known it to hurt or sting on anything on which I've ever put it. 'Tis one of my favorite 'miracle plants'
Keep me updated...I'm thinking the surgery is sometime soon (?).