- Joined
- Feb 25, 2021
His wound care team took the VAC off, so at the time it had to be doing all right.I don't want to see pictures of lizard titties, I wanna see what the foot hole looks like.
Don't despair, though! If he truly can't feel his feet, like he's implied earlier, he could have any number of new and exciting foot holes brewing. Lou wouldn't know about it any more than we do!
Osteomyelitis is also the gift that keeps on giving; feets is full of tiny li'l bones, and any one of them adjacent to the ones he had removed could be slowly, imperceptibly going rogue. With no pain feedback from his feet, he won't know until there's redness, the infection starts to go systemic, or he steps down and there's a weird crack/squish.
(I met a diabetic who was bullied into seeking medical attention by their adult children, because they were leaving a trail of purulence through the house as they walked barefoot, and their shoes smelled like death. Turned out they'd stepped on a sewing pin a few weeks prior, and had no clue it was still in there, straight vertical and buried deep in a Charcot foot.
Said diabetic was still reporting to their job, btw, although it was at a desk.)