I had PT and a rebandge twice today, so it was extra suck. The image in the post above is the suck for the rebandage. Pain town.
I did manage to walk down the hall to the windows, all the way to the nurse's station, and then down another hall and back today. That had me bleed through the bandages, but I did it. I asked, and we wanted to get it to drain? Well, I did that for sure.
Still no discoloration on the bandages that I can tell.
The techs downstairs said the swabs from surgery did show something, but they have not grown a culture from it yet. So I'm still on 3 antibiotics and some antiviral stuff. Once they have a culture, they can give me something specific.
The intention is that as soon as the culture produces, I'll get 24 hours of the new stuff in the hospital, and as long as all is well I'll be released back to the house with a month of antibiotics and the in-home nurse.
My foot continues to look better. The purple is confined to my big toe (where the worst of the infection was and the bone the worst - so that's where most of the surgery is as well.) The red in the rest of my foot is down about 50% now as well as the swelling is almost nothing.
Pain continues to be way up there. Not the pain of when I went to the ICU the first time a month ago, nor now when I came here, but it is that pain that throbs where the surgery is, and hopefully, infection was, then we get the sharp pains I'm assuming is the healing process, finally the pain that still shoots up my leg to my inner thigh. The Doc says I may have neuropathy now for the last part. We will see.
After 3 days, they finally adjusted the pain meds to the lesser but longer acting I asked for. I mean, at least, Dr. Raj Mengele-Ahmed figured it out eventually. I only just took the first dose, but so far, so good.
Anyway they have the more retarded nons working tonight that are reminiscent of the other hospital in the ICU where they hold the bar scanner to read my bracelet and despite it making an obvious line / dot they should point at said barcode - they flail it around at anything but the right spot. To watch them in frustration for why the scene from the opening of 2001: A Space Odysee not read my bracelet and then the awe, as by sheer will of God their epileptic elephant maneuvering manages to be just close enough it makes the beep telling them it read it.
Original experience of that here:
https://t.me/CenobiumTV/3839Might be a long night. I have snackpack sugar-free and zero carb crackers. Plus, new pain meds. Plus, my eldest came to see me today. So, I'm fairly happy.
Love you all, thank you for everything in my time of need. AMDG. o///