in October of 2011 my 17 year old daughter had her first pilonial surgery. Doctor told me before surgery it would be quick and healing time would be 4 to 6 weeks. He said it only be a 4 inch incision. He came out of surgery 2 hours later and told me the incision was 7 to 9 inches long and he remeoved a lot of infected tissue, mid line incision. 2 weeks later she had such a bad infection he went in a second time and removed more tissue. 3 weeks after that there was no healing going on, he recomended that we see a plastic surgeon, so on to Childrens hospital to our 3 rd surgery, it has been 2 months since tha last surgery and the plastic surgeon is talking about going again for surgery. I dont know what else I can do for my daughter she has missed 43 days of school this year.