This week was just a check-up, change the bandaging, and re-accessing the foot. Because the bandage hadn't been changed there was lots of gunk around the wound from wetness, but the wound is filling in quite nicely. We could see where it had filled in on the upper right hand side in just a week and where it needs to continue to fill in in the lower right hand side.
Until another apligraft is used on another patient she will continue to have nursing care at the house every other day for bandage changes. He wants her to continue her collagen based medication at home on the wound to help fill in that lower side. She is getting frustrated about being home bound and wheelchair bound, but until he gives the okay to move about freely she continues on this path. It is getting old.
She enjoyed having Susan and her granddaughter to visit with last week, and to break up the loneliness of being stuck at home. She is cutting down on medications to help with the healing process and is getting along fairly well with that.
Susan and I did some research and discovered that 60 to 70% of the 24 million diabetic patients in the US have charcot foot. While Connie isn't diabetic, it does explain why the Foot God doesn't seem too panicked by her condition. Every day he has someone in his office with this same ailment. A lot of these patients have the condition their entire lives. We are hoping that Connie will be a better healer so that she can get back to her life on foot.
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