"Visiting SAU post surgery"

I visited SAU at Derriford a week after Pilonidal excision surgery as the wound was draining serosanguinos fluid from beneath the scar (2" below bottom of scar I still have the opening from the initial drainage that occurred in 2019). I'm using 4 or 5 of the biggest largest best dressings available daily and due to the location just at the top of cleft of buttocks that remains it is almost impossible to collect all in the dressing and left a pool of blood and fluid all over the seat I'd been sat in all day. 

I saw a young doctor who didn't seem to know what to say and then they called in a registrar to look. I explained that this hole had been there for 6 years, the doctor still maintained that it would heal over. I'm no doctor but I'm sure that if there's been an open incision for 6 years it's not going to suddenly heal over now. 

I chose to have surgery at Derriford as the service I received in 2019 was so comprehensive (I live 8 miles from RD&E in Exeter) but feel completely let down by the specialists on Hound Ward. Two 90-mile round trips over two days (no bed space overnight and prolonged sitting for 20 hours would've had my stitches completely opened up again.

I know you're all under pressure, but I feel the system is broken. Am I to be applying £10 dressings 5 times daily for the rest of time? There is so much fluid built up inside the void from the tissue taken that I can't even sit down without it feeling like someone just turned the tap on and I've soaked right through all layers of clothes. The washing machine literally washes every pair of comfortable trousers or shorts I have daily even with the dressings so this doesn't seem like a long term option and I'm not coming back to sit for 20 hours for a similar response. Like the cyst in the first place, nothing would be done until it became septic/infected, so do we wait for this to become such a problem that I require surgery again or do we try and solve it before it gets to that point?

Mental health is taking a complete battering over this situation now. This isn't living, this is existing or surviving