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by colchar » July 31st, 2013, 7:08 pm
Another update.......
Because I know the pain that is coming my way when the wound is being repacked I have taken to reading a book, and therefore completely obscuring my view, when that is being done. But when she was changing the dressing today, and before she started repacking the wound, the nurse asked if I wanted to see my ankle so I took a look then grabbed my Blackberry so that I could snap a picture to get a better look (pretty tough to get a real good look at your outside ankle!).
I am a long way from being out of the woods but a lot of the red infected and burned looking skin has changed colour. It isn’t a normal colour yet, but it is closer to normal than it had been. I do not like the idea of being on these I.V. antibiotics for another five days but seeing the improvement since Sunday makes me think that it will definitely be worth the hassle. Unfortunately, my foot hurts like hell right now because the wound has just been repacked (it always hurts afterwards which I guess makes sense because it has just been cleaned and had strips of dressing stuffed into it) and the percocet that I take before the appointments doesn't help much after the repacking is completed. But I'll live.
I am guessing that once the infection is gone they will get the hole from the original wound closed up and I am assuming that, once that is done, they will deal with the damaged tissue around the former hole. It still hurts a lot of the time (sitting in a normal position with my feet flat on the floor, or hanging down in any way, hurts like you wouldn’t believe perhaps because of the increased blood pressure or something - our resident M.D. would have to comment on that) but not to the degree that it did before I went to the hospital.
So, as I said, I am a long way from being out of the woods but there has been some improvement even just over the last five days. I was worried sick about the infection having gotten into the bone so let's hope this is a sign that we caught it before that happened.
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