Re: FW: [QUAD-L] Bed Sores

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I don't know how they got the name, "bed sore". I get them from hospitals. I have an area that gets chronic small skin tears from my hips deforming. I find that the adhesives on bandages cause as much damage as the wound if not more. I use pure aloe and rub it in then 2.5 hydrocortisone cream. Heals my "chair sores" overnight. I think the low air loss mattress helps a lot. The mattress I have is 10 years old and held together with duct tape. The folks at medicare say I have to have two stage four wounds to get the mattress replaced with a new one. My skin has turned to some weird crap more akin to tissue paper than skin. After I told my boss that I couldn't stay at work 8 hours a day my working career ended. I tried to keep my insurance too. I think I'm better off on medicaid. Its just another insurance. I couldn't afford the $270 a month that would pay insurance while waiting for my medicare to begin. That $270 a month didn't include drugs or supplies.(two year waiting list) Several social workers told me I was wasting my money on insurance. I really hate how doctors and nurses can act so superior about the sores. The only time I ever see a serious sore on anyone is when a doctor or a nurse was in charge. The treatments that they come up with are completely ridiculous. WET TO DRY bandages, heat lamps. I expect to see them start bleeding people next.   In a message dated 6/11/2005 9:15:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For 26 years I never had a single sore. Then I was in a car wreck that broke both legs. The casts  created horrendous sores on my feet, ankles, and knees. Then developed another on my butt during the hospital stay. Since then, the slightest prolonged pressure anywhere creates a sore. And they take forever to heal. They are the bane of my existence. Count your blessings, Greg.    Larry Willis >From: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <quad-list@eskimo.com> >Subject: [QUAD-L] Bed Sores >Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:41:21 -0700 > >Are bed sores a real common problem with everyone here? >In 23 years, the only ones I had were from when I was in the hospital. >I've had red spots, but they've gone away in 1 or 2 days. I had 1 on the >back of my foot, from the back of my shoe being folded over. But that's all >I can recall. >I had something that might have been a bed sore, but we never knew for >sure. It was a funny spot that showed up on an MIR of my hip. It was a spot >under the muscle of my butt. It never broke through the skin, and there was >never a problem. Docs still not sure what it was. One doc wanted me to have >surgery, cut it open to drain it. But the surgoen said never cut open your >butt if not needed right away. That it could weaken the skin there. It's >been a few years and never a problem. I asked the doc to do a new MRI, but >said my then insurance would not cover it just to look. >Greg