My wife helps out a neighbor. He is having trouble with a deep wound to his leg due to poor circulation or something. Even the temporary nursing home is having trouble dealing with it.
They are going to send him home.
“Um, we probably won’t be able to have a nurse come by to change his dressings and ointments. But - we can show you how to do it and it should be okay. Probably.”
My wife has taken care of his previous less serious skin wounds with great success, but she’s thinking “Ok - the nurses are already having problems with dealing with it - but they want ME to do it!!??”
I told her that she cares for this old guy more than any nurse would, and she would provide better care, but she is leery.
BTW, I once had a minor injury (they thought it was serious) and spend a couple of hours on a stretcher against the hallway wall in a major trauma center. This was years ago. I was going to drive but they said if they took me in an ambulance I wouldn’t have to wait as long. (It was still a long wait).
It was unbelievable - just like in the movies.
The gal behind me was a junky with a cop by her side. She was moaning and/or yelling the entire time.
“Come on - give me some morphine or something - it hurts!!”
“Now Alice - just like last time, they can’t give you morphine until they know what you have taken - you’ll just have to wait.”
And then there was some announcement about a “Life Flight”. I bet 4 to 6 gurneys with medical folks came running down the hallway shouting stats and all of that. It was crazy.
BTW - I think there might be another factor why people aren’t seeing their doc. They are afraid of getting the Covid at the medical place.
I had to see my doc a month ago. He was busy, but some other guy at the place had an opening the following day. I told him it was probably a “——” due to my past history. He agreed, gave me a prescription, took some samples and called me back a day later saying “our” diagnosis was correct and the prescription should clear things up.
I canceled a procedure because I didn’t want to risk getting CoupFlu from vaxxed staff.
Especially since I live in NYS and can’t find a doc willing to offer early treatment.
I have needed medical care lately for some acute issues. I can’t believe what I’ve seen.
The same Big Med that’s all in on the vaxxes, muzzles and mandates, allows people to cram into elevators, employees to come in sick, has staff with their muzzles under their noses, messing with their muzzles then touching surfaces, patients without cleaning their hands...
Then I go for medical care and am treated like a biohazard by medical staff insisting I wear a muzzle made by a manufacturer that states its not for use in healthcare settings.
Your wife is an angel. Tell her to try manuka honey. I had to use it for a rattlesnake bite on a cat and it is amazing stuff.
A fantastic doctor once told me that holding the wound under running water, like a bathtub faucet, for about 15 min or as long as possible, twice a day if possible, will often facilitate healing.
Also, look into comfrey. It has amazing healing properties. I can vouch for it.
E-stim.
Look it up.
Works on bedsores.