Loading ...Lol You got the best of both worlds. I never thought of Hawaii as being in the boondocks. I thought of it as more of a oasis. Lol Yes I know the kind of doctors your talking about and those patients that got air lifted out were the lucky ones because I’m sure there were many others especially over 60 that should of been that weren’t because they wouldn’t of couldn’t help them and left to suffer and die.
I’m glad they are going away but in the mainland they’re shipping them in and you don’t know what your gonna get. The good ones will get filled up fast. Mainly by word of mouth or online reviews by the patients because they know they can’t trust the hospitals insider type. Now because of that some patients won’t say anything protecting their nest so to speak. Since he’s a specialist you could write a good review.
A friend of mine from another state T-boned in a accident they did a good job on her hip surgery but her bone died so had to have a hip replacement. All that time she had a secondary injury on the back of her lower leg not even treated or bandaged. It started to fester for a long time. Then I asked her to describe the wound. What she was describing for one wasn’t a scab it was eschar. I explained to her I’m short that it will kill everything beneath it and get deeper and deeper. They gave her a antibiotic ointment to put on it but that’s like putting ointment on leather. I told her besides so close to her bone she could also get septic and they may not even know where it’s coming from. Luckily she finally went to a wound clinic and said it was eschar and they removed it right away and she had a deep hole in her leg. They didn’t wound vac it after removing all the dead tissue but packed it so now she has her leg and life but a deep indent. We talked about maybe a flower tattoo or something but sometimes they don’t take in that area. Anyways as long as I could hold out I was happy for the ones who got away or while working could help. That was my new attitude when CMT starts damaging the nerves in the lower extremities and then to the hands. The level of damage is different and there are different types. I apparently got the late stage, it gets progressively worse and no cure. I figured out where it stops it when the sudden severe pain starts to go away then moved to my hands and lower arms. Sudden cold was a trigger so it affected me swimming in cold water but found I could handle it with wet suit. I decided not to quit smoking because if I should wind up bed bound so to do each where I can’t do much for myself I won’t want to live anymore and trying to time it but you just can’t get that right while trying to figure out how to work that out with God who wants us to hold out to the very end but to me that is the very end. I don’t know if that will happen. It just can’t be determined. There are some braces that you can walk without having something to hold on to when it starts to reach that level but they were 14000 dollars and decided I’m cool with that. Some people are resentful of others who are free or doing better, they’re A holes. I’m just the opposite. Kinda a like a alter ego watching a football game.