What is that smell?

I came home from shopping and started smelling this odor last night after we went shopping. I smelled my binder and it didn't smell so I searched around my chair. couldn't find the odor. I had left my binder off to watch a movie and kept noticing a odor. I finally decided it had to be me and went to take a shower and wash around the incision, which is covered by steri strips still. The odor didn't go away, it got stronger. OMG the smell. It was like rotting flesh. Chris washed the shirt I was wearing, my binder, my blankets, pillow cases (I keep a pillow on my tummy because my laptop is in my lap as I recline.) But it all smelled again withing minutes of getting near my tummy again even with a towel as a barrier.

Called the Doctor the next morning. No redness around the area, not sore or hot. It had been oozing at my last appointment from under the steri strip but that had stopped. Yes he has seen this before. I could tell because the tone in his voice changed and the manor in which he gave me instructions was much the same as when I worked tech support and walked someone though yet another instillation, "click on start, now go to programs, now click on Control Program....." I did it in my sleep, literally. Chris would tell me I talked in my sleep when I first started. Anyway he told me it was that ooze trapped under the steri strips. To pull off the front steri strips were they are moist and cover it with gauze. That more steri strips would just keep trapping the ooze and it needs to flow. That prevents infections. There would be a small opening and that is fine. Just keep it covered and change the gauze. If it got red or hot to call and he would give me antibiotics or if I felt I needed to come in to come on up he would look at it anytime.

Chris is gone to go pick up our kids from Atlanta so I strip down and throw everything that has touched me and smells of rotting flesh again in the wash. Go to the bathroom so I can see in the mirror and pull off the strips and try not to gag at the smell. Wrap the stinky strips up well and dispose of them and wash the incision. Tape gauze over the area and feel so much better not to smell like a corps. Now just not to push it and cause any more holes that leak ooze.