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Pics of my fasciotomy***It's Healed!!!

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Originally posted by: JoeKing
RALPH! I'm looking for RALPH has anyone seen RALPH


shouldn't you have one of those plastic oxygen cast/chambers around it or something?
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i had a vaccum seal thing on it in the hospital but now that i'm home all i have is a wet/dry covering.
 
You should go sit on the sidewalk at a busy intersection with a tip jar out. No kidding, you will pay all your medical bills and retire in that six to eight weeks.
 
Originally posted by: Kobota
Originally posted by: JoeKing
RALPH! I'm looking for RALPH has anyone seen RALPH


shouldn't you have one of those plastic oxygen cast/chambers around it or something?
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i had a vaccum seal thing on it in the hospital but now that i'm home all i have is a wet/dry covering.
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HMO no? 🙂

be sure to keep that clean! And take the antibiotics they gave you.
 
GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :Q

*reads page 2. looks @ beau's post*

*lits hair on fire, runs and screams around like a little girl*

uggh.. I can't propersly type. I feel very weak in my extremities, u knw the feeling when you see this kind of stuff... ouch.

but yet, please take good care of it. 6-8 weeks? sigh brutal 🙁
 
Wow, I'm not looking at the pics but even reading the comments has me ready to close my browser and just walk away... lol
 
that's probably the sickest thing I've ever seen in a living person. I don't see how it's possible to keep an open wound like that for 6 weeks and be ok. you should be very thankful for modern medicine!
 
Originally posted by: MisfitsFiend
So how are they going to close it up? just wait for the swelling to go down and suture it up?
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hopefully the swelling goes down enough to just stitch it but the doctors said most likely they'll have to skin graft it.
 
I'm curious, after the wound has been open like that for 6-8 weeks, won't it be fairly difficult for doctors to sew it up?

I got hit during a basketball game and required some stitches but I waited until later that day to actually go to the doctor. As she stitched it up, I got a pretty lengthy lecture about how waiting was bad (though for reasons I do not now remember).

 
Originally posted by: Kobota
Originally posted by: CraigRT
um, wow
are you OK?
that looks awful, i would not know what to do with myself if that was me... :Q
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i'm on percocet but when it doesn't really help much escpically when i have to pull the gauze off it.
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I feel for you, I really do, I can only imagine the pain you are in, I remember the pain i was in when I accidentally shot myself hunting and had to have my leg amputated, and I actually had the skin stitched closed. The process of bandaging alone would bring tears to my eyes. The pain of the surgeries actually caused hallucinations... and I was on the strongest dose of morphine they could give me without killing me.
 
I had that done on my lower legs to cure compartment syndrome, but mine was closed up. I guess I'm lucky :shocked:
 
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