This will be very short: To start the week off with a positive outlook, here’s a Mommy sea otter cuddling her one-day old pup (or can also be called a kitten).
I actually first saw it in a Twitter post – and I think it’s actually cuter. It’s just hard to overdose on SKEE!
Take a break and de-stress by watching this otter cuddle it’s baby❤️😊 pic.twitter.com/0zblGhhiWB
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) August 25, 2019
ADDENDUM WRT Leg Wound Care
After sharing w/ the nurse that when I changed the dressing on Thursday evening the wound looked WORSE from the day before (RHST), the Wound Care Clinic nurse, upon removing the dressings, agreed: “This is NOT a happy wound.”
She called the surgeon – but only left a voicemail.
So she called the ER and their Charge Nurse had me come down.
The ER doc agreed this was the WRONG way to progress on the wound, and ordered a CBC, Lactate (evaluates for sepsis) and a deep vein Ultrasound to be sure I had no thrombosis (blood clot).
Fortunately, everything came back normal. So I went back to the Wound Care Clinic for the wound packing and dressing.
Fortunately, I told the nurse that after they changed from Hydrofera Blue to Iodosorb last Wednesday, on leaving & on the way to the parking lot the wound started to burn like pouring rubbing alcohol on an open wound.
That burning lasted through Friday, and by Saturday it quit (or I was acclimated to it).
I shared this w/ the nurse before she put the Iodosorb packing backing into the wound. So she called the Wound Care Nurse Practitioner.
They switched back to the Hydrofera Blue packing (but this nurse packed a LOT more of it in the wound than previously … and w/ NO lidocaine gel).
Saturday not only did I feel much better, but on the dressing change that evening it looked much better.
That improvement pattern continued today (Sunday), so I’m hopeful that it was just a reaction to the caustic iodine in the Iodosorb.
I have a recheck on Wednesday, and I’m supposed to change the Hydrofera Blue packing w/ tomorrow’s dressing change.
That will NOT be the highlight of my day!
10 Responses to “Some Sunday SKEE! [ADDENDUM WRT Leg Wound Care – DETAILED}”
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omg…absolutely !!!! adorable!!
Thanks, Nameless for this sweet video, with mama & newborn!
btw….how’s your leg? Is it healing well?
Take care, and Thanks again.
So Precious.
Momma showing so much love to her baby.
Makes me want to cuddle too.
Thanks Nameless
Sweet indeed.
The baby looks a little large to me to be only one day old, but I’m not an otter expert, so I’m probably wrong.
Agree with Pat – How’s the leg?
Thank you for the update on the wound – it’s most appreciated (we worry, dammit!)
So here’s what I get out of that –
looking worse – bad
scaring the professionals – bad
no thrombosis – good
nothing else out of the ordinary – good
changed packing – good
improvement since – good
net result – favorable.
So I won’t worry for a while. Yes, it does sound like the caustic iodine cauterized the wrong thing (not technically correct but I’m sure you get my drift.)
Whew!! ….lots of big words for the uninitiated… (in medical terms) , but I do read that you are favorably “on the mending list’, and for that I’m grateful.
So glad that you are feeling better. Let us know how your Wednesday exam goes too..Thank you, for keeping us posted.
**I did enjoy Joanne’s summation better though.
You must be telepathic, Nameless. I was very much in need of something with a positive outlook. Thanks.
Hope your leg is healing well.
I LOVE otters (fresh water or sea). They are such playful little rascals! To me, there is only animal more precious than otters and I think you all know which one — cats of course!!!
Sorry to hear about the abscess travails Nameless! I am glad that it appears to be on the mend. May that continue!
The otters are wonderful!
The news about your leg is looking hopeful, but your suffering, and, I assume, deep worry, must be awful!
Thanks for the otter, Nameless. Mega- Cute!
I’d be a lot happier if your leg infection was permanently resolved. Having lost a leg to necrotizing fasciitis, about which I complained for over a year, before it was diagnosed, I worry about such things.
Sounds like you made the right call in having your leg and bloodwork checked out, Nameless. It sounds hopeful, though not less painful now. Keep on taking good care of yourself.