Health Improving - RAY!!!
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| Tue, 07-06-2010 - 2:07am |
Hi EveryBuggy. I'ts been a bad time since mid-March, but finally things are on the mend. Venous ulcers started forming on the right leg, same side as the broken hip. Even with visiting nurses they continued to worsen, ending up with major infection. 3 weeks on oral antibiotics made no impression, I am allergic to several of them. There were a few visits to ER, but they would not admit me. I kept asking for the dressings that had worked in the past, but they kept refusing. Eventually on 28th June, when I was on daily nurse visits, I was admitted to hospital, and put on intravenous anti-biotics. Improvement was dramatic, although the pain was still at 15 out of 10 LOL The wound specialist came to visit me and put me on the dressings that I had been asking for. Phenomenal - dramatic improvement in a couple of days. All the dead skin, that was toes to knee, disappeared, and the ulcers are slowly healing. I was sent home after 4 days, with a PICC line in my arm, so that there could be continuous intravenous anti-biotics, with nurses from the hospital coming daily to change the pump bottle. The line was removed last Thursday, nursing is back to the community nurses - wonderful! I have had a carer come in 2 days a week, for the last month, to help me shower when needed and to prepare veges and meat so I can cook for a few days. That is due to finish this week I think.
Sorry for the lengthy doom and gloom, but it is no longer here. I finally feel hopeful that maybe I really am about to become a bit more active. Currently a volunteer driver has been doing the shopping for me every fortnight - before that I would go with her - looking forward to that. I don't drive and, after the bus accident, I am too scared to catch buses again. I've been issued with 50% off taxi vouchers, from the government, so that helps heaps. Love and hugs, Jenni

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Jenni, I am so very pleased to hear that you are finally doing so much better.
Thank you, Kt and Pam. You are both so right about the grandbabies, plus my DDIL, they make such a big difference to all of us. I've never seen DS2 so happy in all his life. The funny thing is that DGS actually looks like DS2 in many ways. Even his birth father commented on it.
DS1 has his nose out of joint a bit - he is visiting from Thailand, and wants company from his DB when he wants it - does not have any concept that DB wants to spend any free time with his family. Poor thing, he leaves to go back to Thailand on Wednesday morning early. He and a friend from here are going to Vietnam for about 6 days, so that should put him in a better frame of mind,
The dressing is I think silver nitrate, it certainly seems to work for me. There is still a bit of discomfort, but nothing like the previous pain. Wet, cold
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