[QUAD-L] Pressure Sore

[Nichole Rohling]

I’ve been paralyzed 18 ½ years and have had 1 pressure sore at the top of my
butt crack a few years after my injury. One of my caregivers noticed last
night I am getting another one. I am pretty sure it’s from laying on my back
in bed. I prop my feet up and my pillow top has a deep indention where my
butt is. I do have a air bed on top of the mattress.

 

I can’t lay on my side because my catheter doesn’t drain. Suggestions please
on how you would relieve pressure on this area. 

 

Home health nurse left me aquacell to put on it but they are 6 x 6 ……..she
said just cut them but that leaves 2 edges that aren’t sealed and I thought
you weren’t suppose to put that directly on an open sore?

 

Nicki