Home from the both hospitals

 I will warn you ahead of time that if you are not into blood or trama situations DO NOT OPEN the thumb nails to look at them larger.

After 9 days at the local hospital a lot of bi$#*ing  I came home.  At which time my leg looked like this.

  Most of the yellow shaded skin fell off leaving a hard leather like brown tissue, basically dead skin similar to skin that has a 3rd degree burn.  By that ime it was a week later at time for another local doctor visit.  He wasn’t happy and and said that I needed to go to Eau Claire and see a specialist.  2 days later I was at the specialists, he took a swab to check for staph (that was negative just like the 3 others they took at the local hospital).  The specialist sent me straight down to the surgeon who took one look and sent me straight down to the operation prep area.  By 7 pm that evening I was being wheeled into surgery.  Almost all of the skin that shows either red or yellow in the pictures had most or all of the layers taken off.  OUCH!  but I had lots of good drugs. 

A snow storm kept all my visitors away so I can’t thank the girls from MQ Resources enough for your well wishes as I at least had Internet available to me at the second hospital.  The surgery was Thursday night and I was released on the following Monday.  Nurses were to come every day to change the bandage.  Here is what it looked like on the day after I came home from the hospital.

  I only have a picture of the inside of the leg.  Most all of the outside of the leg was one large open sore at this time.  I spent most of my time with my leg elevated either while in bed or in front of the TV.  I had lots of good pain meds that kept me mostly in phases of sleep.  The sores were dressed with a great new er product called aqua cell that actually has real silver in it.  HMMM I wonder what heat would do to it????? any way back on track, this stuff promotes healing and keeps infection out.  I can’t say how great this stuff works all the nurses and doctors are amazed at my progress.

I see the plastic surgeon in the morning for the final decision as to whether I will need a skin graphed or not.  So expect another update with more pictures soon.