Well, I hd my appointment. He inserted the fistula probe to check if one was indeed still present. Good news - it's not! And before the CRS confirmed I could tell. During my first exam pre-op when he did it, I could feel the probe go through into the rectum. This time, it was a hard stop.
He did however lay in some silver nitrate as I expected he might. Burnt like a bitch and my butthole looks like someone rubbed charcoal on it haha!
He said to evaluate over the next 2-3 weeks and see if I notice improvement. If not, I need to make another appointment and he said he may need to CUT again. I must have had "the look" on my face because he quickly said "no surgery, just local anaesthetic here in the office". PHEW!
I would still very much like to avoid that. He said it seems like just delayed healing, so he burnt the skin away on the wound and I'm hoping it improves. My issue is that it seems to become aggravated when I have a BM, so I'm going to go back on stool softeners starting tonight to make this as easy as possible. I don't have trouble passing a BM except that sometimes it's a little too bulky and my anus won't open far enough to let it pass, which is probably why this is happening. Ugh.