I am 24 years old and had my first(open)surgery when I was 17. It took almost 2 years for my wound to finally heal. I was sent to several doctors and tried almost everything, including topical cremes and silver nitrate. It was finally close to be healed when they sent me to the hyperbaric chamber. I went about 12 times before it freaked me out enough and I never went back. It finally closed about a month later. For the next couple years I would get flare ups off and on when I decided to go back to another doctor. He followed me for some time and then decided to redo the surgery. He thought that maybe they didn't get all of it the first time. I had the second (open) surgery in Feb. 2004. It is now Nov. 2004 and I still have a wound approx. 2 cm in depth and 3 cm wide. It hasn't healed any since July. I changed doctors and she has been applying the silver nitrate again and I am packing it once a day with Aquacel. Still nothing has happened. I went to a plastic surgeon to see about a skin graft. Instead they want to re-excise it some and close it up in layers with stitches. Still yet, nobody can tell me why this thing won't heal. I had blood work done and everything came back fine. I am scheduled for surgery to close it up on Dec. 6th. She says there is only a 50/50 chance this may work. Does anyone have any advice on what I should do?[=(]