Healed!

 

I'm healed! Will almost. Today Tyler my RN who is my wound care specialist, announced as he peeled the dressing he applied to my rear end on Monday. There's still little bit of a scab I guess, I don't know how to explain, but he says rather than coming out on Monday just have my morning person, Melanie peel off the dressing he's applying today and I should be good to go. Now I'm really cautious now. I can't believe how goodbye but feels. It hasn't felt this good what seems like years and I just don't want to lose that feeling. Now, I'm worried that without the daily intervention of Tyler that I'm just going to damage my rear end again. We talked about this a little bit and we agree that we really need to educate my home health person to be aware of the issue – – I kind of think she is – – I'm worried that she doesn't want to see these kind of issues arise because it would take time and extra work. I truly hope that's not the case but I have to admit as a wound got worse and worse I was inquiring every session how my schedule and she assured me that it looked great no problems and I believed her to a point though finally the pain a significant to the point that I figured out a way to take images on my own of my butt which I used to not only scare the snot out of me but certainly put my physician and other medical staff on high alert that something needs to be done. That was when my medical doctor immediately wrote orders for wound care specialists to start visiting me at my home and this was great in the tremendous relief.

So now the balls of my court totally. I'm going to have to become hypervigilant as to my skin condition everywhere but most specifically on my rear end. I was a little worried that I back become a past and contacting these folks anytime I felt pain but Tyler assured me that he would rather that I call in with a minor issue then waiting and call in with major skin breakdown. I'm taking Tyler at his word and totally hope this is the case. Now, I've got to put the pressure on my occupational therapist to really consider on getting me a much better cushion for this new power chair I have. I'm currently using my overstuffed cushion from my other power chair – – the one I'm going to rehab – – but I feel I'm sitting on borrowed time. This cushion is pretty old and I wouldn't be surprised if sooner or later and most likely sooner that one of these pods of cushion or gelatin whatever magical compound is in the cushion fails that's going to be at four my butt protection space and I don't want to have to do an emergency search type of thing to find a similar type cushion. I'm really hoping I can head them off at the pass and find a cushion that works for me. For years I have fought the idea of using a Roho cushion which I'm sure I've written about my fear of having to cope with a cushion that's going to fail sooner than later. It's been discussed with me “so what!?” You'll have the benefit of the cushion for all those days that the commission did not fail and perhaps the right just more stuff to think about…