Fast and short

[unixronin]

I'm home and catching up on Stuff.  We were persuaded, instead of me coming straight home after surgery, to send me to a rehab hospital for five to six days of intensive rehab.  Unfortunately nobody actually got an agreement with the rehab hospital on the 5-6 days part.  They were expecting to keep me 10-14 days, but I met all the rehab goals in four, then cymrullewes came and sprung me last night.

Further updates and more details will be behind the medical filter.  If you're not on it and you want to be, ask.

Comments

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Ok.... what's wrong with you? Poor circulation slowing down healing? Not taking your vitamins? Diabetes? Some other thing that I haven' heard about in the past 9 years that slows healing down like that? Didn't they try Reganax to close the wound? What about Silverdyne? I'd ask about Vitamin E but that's not until it is actually closed and more to prevent scarring than anything else.

Congrats on getting the plate out so quickly. He's still got his. That'll be another surgery. But at least we now know it can be removed.

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

The wound started as the lower incision during the plate insertion surgery. It's so close to the ankle, there's just almost nothing down there except skin and bone. The fact that I'm a smoker probably didn't help either. The wound started to heal, and then reversed course and opened out to a square shape. And then a screw head and the edge of the plate started showing through, at which point they all slapped their forehead and said, "Oh....". So, after six weeks they decided there was enough stability on the tibia to pull the plate out. From that point on, slowly, it started closing in and pulling together. They did consult several times for a possible skin graft procedure, but once the plate was out they seemed very happy with the progress. It's closed now, but it's still very tender and needs to be protected.

So...yes. I just think it's a really, really bad place for an incision. Too close to the bone, not enough blood flow even on a non-smoker.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

(nods)

Yeah, we had a hard time getting the wound on the front of my left shin healed for similar reasons. It wound up being a case of regularly applying Regranex and just waiting for new skin to grow in from the edges. Shallow-tissue wounds can be real bastards to heal.

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

They've been using silver gels on me. I find it rather exciting that I could, in theory, be mined for semi-precious metals.