Loading ...Yeah she has that unstoppable Semper Fi on her dad’s side. Not just anesthesia that can affect everyone differently plus they might not remember the initial pain plus she was heavily medicated for pain plus the trauma. In her case she couldn’t be bearing any weight on her arms hands or leg for awhile.
Then going all though that to find her hardware in the leg was infected plus having to go back in for tissue injury or I sent her back recognizing cellulitis was forming and area that looked like deep tissue injury which it was. A different doctor opened up the area to see pus coming out of a screw in her tibia then another. Removed them and used antibiotics. I told my daughter to ask her to get cultures and not mess around and she said she definitely was. Then she had a bit of trouble with the corner of the flap. She said it was getting deeper. So after awhile if getting deeper she had me treat it and I showed her this is sluff and causing it to tunnel because it’s killing granulation tissue preventing it to grow , cleaned it up and told her she needed a wound vac and will help draw the antibiotics to it and circulation to heal it too. First they thought it wasn’t sluff them realized it was or something She went back and saw her first surgeon and he put a temp type wound vac in on and set it for 7 days and it needed two weeks at least to granulate tissue back up. Well after 7 days I didn’t know about it or the other doctor it stopped plus she was out of antibiotics.
So that fluid has no where to escape making it a closed dirty wound situation and I had a fit when she told me because she said her leg was starting to smell and found out why. I told her to go right back and have them take it off and clean that wound and replace the vac in and get back on antibiotics now. She talked to the other doctor who didn’t know and told her to take it off her in the shower and rinse it off and she’ll see her the next day. I gave her silver gel on hand so she used that to keep it moist which granulating wound needs. They do everything old school as they have chemical de breeders too that don’t harm healthy tissue and keep the granulating tissue moist and alive. They use wet to dry which then can harm the healthy tissue as it dries and pulled off and drag everything out which can result in infections too. So the wound was half filled with tissue from the vac but apparently didn’t have more portable on hand so using the wet to dry. I told her they could of admitted her for another week in with a hospital vac and healed that up. At least they got her more antibiotics for the osteomyelitis still there too That was a month ago and still being treated now for that wound that should of been resolved Cognitive dissonance going on. She saw the other doctor again too and he said the X-rays looked good and the plates weren’t ready to come out yet. Hello!! I told her they can replace them! I don’t know what’s up less they don’t want to show the hardware was contaminated. Compliance is good on one end, not on the other. She needs to get a second opinion .out of their group. It could result it losing her leg, is resulting in chronic osteo and could cause sepsis. She should be all healed by now.