Let's Get Serious!

Now I'm on short term disability so I can spend more time in bed, off my butt. Plus I get home nursing care coming to my house every two days to treat my wound and change the dressing on it. I'm told the wound is small and healthy looking. So the wound should heal quickly now, in a matter of a few weeks, right? Wrong! We wouldn't have any Wound Care Follies if that happened, would we?

For a couple of months the nurses treat the wound with a packing material that is supposed to prevent infection and promote healing. I spend some time out of bed, in my wheelchair, but I try to stay down, off my butt as much as possible. I probably could have done a better job of that, looking back. It was too easy to "cheat", to stay up in the wheelchair longer than I should have. Plus, hours often went by without my noticing, as I got immersed in whatever I might have been doing. At any rate, the wound did not respond. It didn't get worse, it didn't get better. Just like before. So my wound care doctor decides try something else. We are going to try a wound vac device.