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Gonna add onto this because I see a lot of people here don't know what hyper-granulation is and why this either funny or horrifying depending on where you fall on the "lolcow/horrorcow" spectrum.Ah, yes, I think that's "proud flesh", which is way more common in neovaginas than it feels like it statistically should be. It's also a completely medieval sounding term for what it is (hypergranulation tissue) which is somehow fitting for this context.
The first part of healing a big tissue injury is the scarring phase, followed by the granulation phase, followed by the maturation phase. Scarring is the immediate debriding, "patch this shit up" mode, where clotted blood and fucked up cells are removed in place of fast forming tissue. Next the granulation occurs, which is when highly vascularized tissue, basically a bunch of raw capillaries and connective tissue go to replace the scar tissue.
It's supposed to be pink, because it's a mixture of connective tissue and capillaries. Here we see it's dark red, because the body is literally trying to fill this hole so desperately it's letting the vasculature run wild.
And let me add a final bit. Hyper granulation like this does not heal. Because skin has to meet a LOT of requirements or it will literally kill itself, because evolutionarily, imagine what happens if skin grows wherever it wants? So it will be an endless knot of choked out tissue.
In other words, the human body cannot tell the difference between an amhole and a sucking chest wound it has to close by any means possible before lethal infection sets it.