Great, Alton!!! Our hospital is in the process of putting in a "wound" clinic, which will have the same services here. With diabetes, TM, and eczema, I figure it may be of use to me in the future......so glad you suggested this, I think it makes much more sense than getting cut on if this type service is accessible for them. My ¢ janh
--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Alton Ryder <[email protected]> wrote: Ask your doctor about hyperbaric oxygen. I had a wound on the upper surface of a foot with impaired circulation; the wound shrank but would not heal despite twice-weekly treatments for years. I finally went to a wound specialist the end of March, and he prescribed hyperbaric oxygen that I started the following week - five days a week for six weeks. The hyperbaric chamber is a Lexan tube, seven or eight feet long, maybe three feet in diameter, with a steel cap/door at each end. Slid in there from a special gurney and watched a video (outside) for an hour. Pure oxygen at about 1.5 atmos. The tissues are saturated with oxygen. It worked. The wound, once the size of an egg and ~two mm below the nearby skin, is now maybe eight mm in diameter and flush. Alton On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Rebecca wrote: She feels his wounds can not heal if we don't find something else to help
