Woke up cranky.
Almost certainly just a cyclical thing.
Ican't be optomistic and daring all the time.
Even my phantom limbs seem to hurt.
Too much family and caretaker drama. Its very scary to be dependant on people who are having dramas.
I can't even go to a movie or a cafe and get away from it.
Sometimes I feel trapped. Can't take a nap on the couch. Can't go beyond certain places in the house.
I did see the doctor yesterday and he did say I could take showers. Now all I have to do is get the handheld installed and the shower chair bought.
Anyone wanna take me to Johnson Medical supply on Monday?
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Thursday, August 2, 2007
2 More Tunneling Wounds!
YARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
Yesterday I got my long handled mirror. (They are used for paras and other wheelies to look at thier backs to see how thier skin is doing.)
I used it for the first time today.ThOh crap, I found two more of the tunneling wounds.
I haven't talked about these wounds, but they are a drama in of themselves. the first one (also known as "The Wound") was a little hole in my high right shank/butt area with a little "antichamber" from which branched off two tunnels, one an inch long, the other four! In the hospital, it was getting irrigated twice a day with saline, packed with special guaze, covered with zeraform (a special yellow gauze impregnated with vasoline and possibly s9ome sort of bacteria killer), and wrapped up twice daily. In fact, this wound was the reason that my right leg hasn't been prepped for a prothesis yet.
Last week, afterleaving thehospital, I discovered (by feell) a 2nd one, more towards my groin, but still in the seam (if that is the correct term) between my old skin and the graft recipiant site. This one was only a centemeter long. We havent had a syringe, but it's been packeda nd included in the wrapping. (Well, the wrapping's around thw whole thigh, or what's left of it.)
Lookked at the back of my right leg 1/2 hour ago. Two more wounds, both in a sort of a channel (it lookes almost like a butt crack!) in the center of the graft site. HIdden by the edema of the leg.
The good news is that one in one centimeter long, the other half that. But I don't know why Ikeep getting these. With the first one, there was a lot of talk of infection. There was staph in that wound. And it was puss-y (filled with puss, instead of being a cat or slang for a woman's box), at least until the irrigation washed it out. But the others are dry. Maybe because I found them before they became too long.
Am I going to be prone my entire life? Is it something that is associated with the graft? I just hope that there wasn't some sort of infectin that they were tunnelling towards.
btw The original Wound is pretty much healed now, Scabbed over even. I hope the three that are left close up soon.
Yesterday I got my long handled mirror. (They are used for paras and other wheelies to look at thier backs to see how thier skin is doing.)
I used it for the first time today.ThOh crap, I found two more of the tunneling wounds.
I haven't talked about these wounds, but they are a drama in of themselves. the first one (also known as "The Wound") was a little hole in my high right shank/butt area with a little "antichamber" from which branched off two tunnels, one an inch long, the other four! In the hospital, it was getting irrigated twice a day with saline, packed with special guaze, covered with zeraform (a special yellow gauze impregnated with vasoline and possibly s9ome sort of bacteria killer), and wrapped up twice daily. In fact, this wound was the reason that my right leg hasn't been prepped for a prothesis yet.
Last week, afterleaving thehospital, I discovered (by feell) a 2nd one, more towards my groin, but still in the seam (if that is the correct term) between my old skin and the graft recipiant site. This one was only a centemeter long. We havent had a syringe, but it's been packeda nd included in the wrapping. (Well, the wrapping's around thw whole thigh, or what's left of it.)
Lookked at the back of my right leg 1/2 hour ago. Two more wounds, both in a sort of a channel (it lookes almost like a butt crack!) in the center of the graft site. HIdden by the edema of the leg.
The good news is that one in one centimeter long, the other half that. But I don't know why Ikeep getting these. With the first one, there was a lot of talk of infection. There was staph in that wound. And it was puss-y (filled with puss, instead of being a cat or slang for a woman's box), at least until the irrigation washed it out. But the others are dry. Maybe because I found them before they became too long.
Am I going to be prone my entire life? Is it something that is associated with the graft? I just hope that there wasn't some sort of infectin that they were tunnelling towards.
btw The original Wound is pretty much healed now, Scabbed over even. I hope the three that are left close up soon.
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