Foot update
Dec. 1st, 2011 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chrishansenhomeIt struck me that I haven't updated on my foot situation very much lately, so here it is, along with picture (non gory but graphic).
The last two Mondays I've gone into the Foot Clinic so that the orthopods can take a look at it and tell me how lucky I am that they didn't amputate my little toe. However, two Mondays ago the podiatrist in charge of the orthopedic patients didn't realise that I was one, so she took me off the list. Thus, I waited for 4 hours to be seen by the podiatrist, and another 2 hours to get my IV antibiotic. I was livid.
Monday of this week I was on the list, was seen by the orthopods, they pronounced healing going well, but I was still there for 5 hours waiting for the IV.
This has made me very annoyed, but luckily I don't have to go back for another 3 weeks. At that point, the gold wire coming out of my little toe will be removed and my foot will be put into a cast. Oh joy.
I gathered enough courage to look at the wound yesterday. It wasn't quite as gory as I thought it would be. There is a little fluid discharge, but the wound itself is clean and dry, and filling in nicely. It's very red, which means that the blood is getting to the surface to make more cells.
I have had to cancel my US trip in December, as the quacks say that I won't be fit to travel. Crumbs, I say.
Now here, behind a cut, is the picture of my toes. Note the gold wire coming out of the top of my little toe. It's there to stiffen it since there is no bony connection between my toe and my foot.
The last two Mondays I've gone into the Foot Clinic so that the orthopods can take a look at it and tell me how lucky I am that they didn't amputate my little toe. However, two Mondays ago the podiatrist in charge of the orthopedic patients didn't realise that I was one, so she took me off the list. Thus, I waited for 4 hours to be seen by the podiatrist, and another 2 hours to get my IV antibiotic. I was livid.
Monday of this week I was on the list, was seen by the orthopods, they pronounced healing going well, but I was still there for 5 hours waiting for the IV.
This has made me very annoyed, but luckily I don't have to go back for another 3 weeks. At that point, the gold wire coming out of my little toe will be removed and my foot will be put into a cast. Oh joy.
I gathered enough courage to look at the wound yesterday. It wasn't quite as gory as I thought it would be. There is a little fluid discharge, but the wound itself is clean and dry, and filling in nicely. It's very red, which means that the blood is getting to the surface to make more cells.
I have had to cancel my US trip in December, as the quacks say that I won't be fit to travel. Crumbs, I say.
Now here, behind a cut, is the picture of my toes. Note the gold wire coming out of the top of my little toe. It's there to stiffen it since there is no bony connection between my toe and my foot.
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Date: 2011-12-02 12:13 am (UTC)I have had to cancel my US trip in December
Bummer. Sorry we won't get to see you.
I hope your healing proceeds happily and speedily.
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Date: 2011-12-02 12:18 am (UTC)I very much doubt it. In fact, I thought of asking to see the bone fragments they removed, but I suspect they've already been incinerated.
I am thinking March now. I really want to go to Philanthropic Lodge in Marblehead while I'm still a ruling master at Goliath, and I install my successor in May.