Posted on March 23rd, 2016 by metonia
Well, I started back on my aqua therapy maintenance program Monday. Wanted to be sure the cellulitis had resolved. It wasn’t 100% but much better and a waterproof band-aide was enough to cover the remaining scabs. Since I’ve spend approximately 6 months of every year in active therapy for one thing or another over the [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2016 by metonia
Saw the doc today, the cellulitis is looking much better. It has stopped oozing and much less red. Still has two scabs but doc was happy. She graduated me to 2 shoes, said “progress carefully” and “come back as needed”. I don’t need PT, I can drive and good bye.
WOW, I’m definitely happy but also [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2016 by metonia
Well, my incision is still open but not infected. I’ve decided I need to start thinking wound care. I’m finding no matter what I do the boots rubbing which isn’t helping. I read someones post recently with suture and wound problems that I’m going to try and find to read the entire history hoping it [...]
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Posted on March 5th, 2016 by metonia
With all the different stages of swelling I became curious if the Lymphatic System was involved post surgery. Basically I was curious if this was severed during surgery and if that would explain all the swelling. I found this site, which actually was a very good site and was very informative about the health of [...]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2016 by metonia
I searched the blog and found this one http://achillesblog.com/kristin123/2011/09/09/definition-of-pwb-and-fwb/ but it doesn’t answer my question. Plus how does a person measure how much weight they are putting on their foot when in a boot and on PWB?
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Posted on March 2nd, 2016 by metonia
Well it will be interesting. I’ve continued to have pain to touch on the side of my ankle. Yesterday as a means to protect it come, I put on a neoprene ankle support. I’m guessing it’s nerve pain from lack of fat tissue between my skin and the operative site. The support was comfortable and [...]
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