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- Apr 8, 2018
The worst issues from complete immobility are blood clots (DVT) and pressure sores. Elderly people usually get them the worst, or people in hospital in ICU.
Pressure sores are awful. They happen if you spend a lot of time completely immobile, which is why in hospital you will see nurses turning patients in ICU regularly, just slightly turning them to lean weight on one side of their body, to lessen the chance of getting sores.
They come in different severity levels:
Grade 1: entry level, basically you would have a little red mark on your skin. Kind of like when you lean on something for ages.
From there you go up through grades 2 and 3, which basically mean that due to the friction of your body being against something under pressure, your skin has rubbed away. As elderly people have weaker skin quality it effects them a lot more, and as you get older you can become a lot less mobile and more at risk of things that disable you such as strokes etc.
The endgame is grade 4. I won't include pictures because they are absolutely horrific. Basically a grade 4 pressure sore has gone through all the layers of skin, leaving a deep hole. Power level, but I had a family member in residential care who got sick and was admitted to hospital. The doctors discovered they had a grade 3 and grade 4 pressure sore and the care home had to be investigated for neglect as they obviously had just been leaving her in one position. She couldn't move herself due to brain damage from a stroke and couldn't communicate that well due to dementia. She unfortunately never recovered from that bout of illness, she died with literal craters almost deep enough to see bone. She was also diabetic, so that contributed to the wounds not healing up.
SO the moral of the story is stay mobile! Pressure sores are no joke!
Lou unlocked and holy shit, I had a good laugh at the scenario. Absolutely winner of a chimp out!
