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The ulcers on my right foot got basty. On the outside it got deep enough to see a bone.
About 2 months ago after a month stay at an hospital and plenty of tests I am sent home, was told by the doctor that I could walk and tgat I should exercice on the stationary bike, 3 eeeks later I get our if my truck I step on the curb, hear a "crack" look down and all looks fine, enter my hime, est breajfast, read the paper, fo the crossword and sudoku.
Then I see all the bloid in the floor, ambulance guys take the dressing I wear daily snd it bleeds profusely folliwing my heart bests,tthey try to control it with bandages and rush to the nearest hospital.which has a bad rep.
Bleed so much on the way that they had to hose down thecambulance and throw away the matress.
This is an old teaching hospital lacking resorces but the PEOPLE tgere are great and find a wsy to do hat is needed with what they have.
I was toldcthst their op3ration facilities where the oldest in tge island, wrong, when they toik the,broken bones from my foot the room they used was huge and quite midern and thecsurgeon and his team very knowing and professional.
That was 2 Thursdays ago, Monday lsst week they sent me home,,now a nurse comes 3 times a week to change dressings.
First surgeon I saw betwen hospital stays told me as he walked into his examining room sfter some 3 secnds to run to the hospital where he and his partner work so they could inmediatelly amoutate the foot, just like that, then hevgot all worked out ejen I told him I woukd seek acdecond opinion.
Now it is a waiting game, can't use that foot as that will damage healing and a year or 3 us how long full healing will take. Things could complicate along and the amputation could be the course of action.
Hate to lose my foot but I am kinda prepared mentally for that, what I am not us prepared financially to afford one and hoping the LOUSY local government medical plan we have is futile, easier to hit the powerball.
My healing would speed along quite dome with hyperbariatric treatment even acupuncture but again, that lousy medical.plan is supposed to but will skirt the issue, brother spent years trying to get a prosteti leg, ended up telling them to pound sand.
Now my brother, ooor guy, hss a nasty growth under his belly that is quite inflamated and has an ulcer right where he seats. He cries himself to sleep when it desides to get nadty. He cannot find an urologist thay accepts our nedical pksn and those that do simply do not snswer theit phones.
We have no family, much less friends that will, can help us with the exception of a well to do uncle in Florida that will rather go to mass on Sunday and put money on the pit yhsn to move a fingervto help us after all my.mom did for him.
Well sorry about tha ling and sappy talr but this is what I been doing.
About 2 months ago after a month stay at an hospital and plenty of tests I am sent home, was told by the doctor that I could walk and tgat I should exercice on the stationary bike, 3 eeeks later I get our if my truck I step on the curb, hear a "crack" look down and all looks fine, enter my hime, est breajfast, read the paper, fo the crossword and sudoku.
Then I see all the bloid in the floor, ambulance guys take the dressing I wear daily snd it bleeds profusely folliwing my heart bests,tthey try to control it with bandages and rush to the nearest hospital.which has a bad rep.
Bleed so much on the way that they had to hose down thecambulance and throw away the matress.
This is an old teaching hospital lacking resorces but the PEOPLE tgere are great and find a wsy to do hat is needed with what they have.
I was toldcthst their op3ration facilities where the oldest in tge island, wrong, when they toik the,broken bones from my foot the room they used was huge and quite midern and thecsurgeon and his team very knowing and professional.
That was 2 Thursdays ago, Monday lsst week they sent me home,,now a nurse comes 3 times a week to change dressings.
First surgeon I saw betwen hospital stays told me as he walked into his examining room sfter some 3 secnds to run to the hospital where he and his partner work so they could inmediatelly amoutate the foot, just like that, then hevgot all worked out ejen I told him I woukd seek acdecond opinion.
Now it is a waiting game, can't use that foot as that will damage healing and a year or 3 us how long full healing will take. Things could complicate along and the amputation could be the course of action.
Hate to lose my foot but I am kinda prepared mentally for that, what I am not us prepared financially to afford one and hoping the LOUSY local government medical plan we have is futile, easier to hit the powerball.
My healing would speed along quite dome with hyperbariatric treatment even acupuncture but again, that lousy medical.plan is supposed to but will skirt the issue, brother spent years trying to get a prosteti leg, ended up telling them to pound sand.
Now my brother, ooor guy, hss a nasty growth under his belly that is quite inflamated and has an ulcer right where he seats. He cries himself to sleep when it desides to get nadty. He cannot find an urologist thay accepts our nedical pksn and those that do simply do not snswer theit phones.
We have no family, much less friends that will, can help us with the exception of a well to do uncle in Florida that will rather go to mass on Sunday and put money on the pit yhsn to move a fingervto help us after all my.mom did for him.
Well sorry about tha ling and sappy talr but this is what I been doing.
If this post is non welcomed, I can always give you a recipe for making "tostones".
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Can you get to Miami, they can't refuse to treat you at a hospital and if ever anybody needed help it is you and your brother.
My :angel2::angel2:
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We just had to nursemaid Teach thru his recuperation and it was hell on wheels, and we don't need a second guy off his pins. So get well.
Makes my own problems look trivial. I've got a CAT scan tomorrow and an upper/lower GI next Tuesday. But you've got that beat by a country mile -- not that it's a good thing.
Best thoughts for you and your bro, dude.
:that: Try to get to Miami
JAY
I have personally been to a presentation on the use of Human Placenta cells healing foot ulcers and the results are literally miraculous.
http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01859117
I strongly suggest you investigate. The physicians pioneering this treatment are in Miami.
D
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Wound care, is a specialty, wound care centers treat chronic or long term wounds, ulcers etc.
Problems arise if the patient is over 50 years old and diabetic, cardiac etc, various meds, and a chronic wound or ulcer that infects and compromises bones and cause fractures making treatment very expensive, intensive as it requires 24 hour care and expensive medications and surguries and specialists.
Once severe bone infection sets in, treatment is far more difficult and is harder to treat and manage, and takes a long time.
I reccomend you contact a long term wound treatment center in a major city like Miami or Baltimore or NYC etc, one without HMO limits and a patient bill of rights.
It doesn't sound like you guys have any time to waste doing it either.
You have my prayers
Talking w. my girlfriend after I drank the barium liquid and waiting the 45 minutes needed, I remembered seeing a news account of some awful African town where Ebola has hit hard, and the people there have zero access to any decent medical care and are simply plague victims waiting to happen.
And here we sat, in Houston, access to maybe the finest overall medical care in the world, and how lucky were were.
bruchi, I've got no idea what sort of general medical care you've got where you live, but as others here have suggested, if things are lacking, get yourself to somewhere things are different, usually in any big medical-complex city.
And keep us posted, pal, okay? And get thee well!
** As my friend "Tricoastal Tracy" said in her blog, "I don't understand why hospitals are wasting so much money scanning cats!"
Only buddy in Miami would.hwlo but h3 neesa a lot help himsel.
Are you diabetic?
Lab tests = woof
very expensive tests...
Puertorico is by far the worst for healthcare, Californication is not much better, you can get capped by CA HMOs as easily as by **** bangers.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!