We drove to Bakersfield on May 14 so Dr Dev could view the "hole", he said to come back in a month and he "might" do a flap and for me to check out the local SLO nursing homes because I would not be able to get up for 3 weeks! As is is now on the wound vac, it creates a negative pressure and I can be up for a while! I took me about 4 weeks to feel good enough to do much tho because of the Leavoquin I had to take for the Staph bugs that were present. Apparently the osteomyletis was scraped out of the bone because I did not have to have vincamycin the IV antibiotic I had to have in 2000 and 2005 that didn't do the job!
Anyway, the June 11 appt got postponed until the 25th! I am pushing protein to get it to heal, it looks really good and the wound vac is workinng continuously at sucking away the secretions and pulling O2 into the area to promote healing as well.
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Ed has been wonderful at feeding me and helping me a lot. Sometimes the tape over the wound has pulled away and the alarm on the vac goes off so we just add another layer of tape, but it is hard for me to do as my reach is not quite good enough to reach the far points. The other day at noon the nurse changed the dressing and hooked it all up and the vac would not turn on!!! So I called the 800# and the rep was in OXnard on his way to Carpenteria and would not be able to get to me until about 6 pm! I called the home care agency but they didn't have a spare. According to Sal, he shipped one to them the day before! Some good it did for me. So I kept the bandaid on and laid on my side. So far it seems to be working OK.
Wish me luck!
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