they briefly discussed a wound vac, but it would have involved a stay in the hospital. I'm too paranoid of getting any infections going to a hospital. This year makes 25 years and the only respiratory infection I have ever had was year 1 while in rehab.
Over the year it went from 2.7cm deep to 1cm deep now. Might heal faster if I completely get off it but I have not been, just on the alternating air mattress. On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 4:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to hear that Jim. Are you also using a wound vac? > Best Wishes > > In a message dated 1/21/2014 6:33:42 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > I've been in bed since December 2012. I've only been getting out of bed > into my chair once a month to go to the wound clinic. I use to hate being > in bed but have realized what the problem was that with my adaptive input > not setup to use from bed I couldn't do anything. Now that I can use the > computer from bed and control the tv/dvr using a slingbox, I can do > everything I would normally be doing from bed. No need to get dressed, do > transfers in and out of bed saving about an hour a day to do something > else. > > My would was small but deep. I was given the option of flap surgery but > that would require going to the hospital then a nursing home. No thanks. So > it's healing slowly, no infections. My nurses change the packing in the > wound daily. > > Jim > >
