I will update you on Virginia's condition in two parts.
First I will tell you what has happened since the last blog update.
Second I will tell you what has happened this week since Tuesday (see next post).
Virginia is still totally non-weight bearing with her right foot. She is still not at home and has been at Hillsboro Rehab. She has been exercising in therapy sessions on Monday's, Wednesday's, Thursday's and Friday's. On Tuesday's we generally go to the Adventist Wound Clinic to see her podiatrist. She does not have therapy on the weekends.
She has been gradually increasing the time she can stand on her left leg (wound is on the right).
Initially, she could stand only 15-20 seconds but has worked up to a five minute stand. She is also doing upper body exercises. She gets sore after the upper body work.
If you use your left hand to form a letter "C" with your thumb and index finger you will have the shape and approximate size of her surgical wound. The "C" shaped flap is healing very well. The
bottom of the "C" where the old wound was located is healed over well. The skin edges were well approximated during surgery. The side of the "C" is quite narrow now (was about 1/2" apart). The top of the "C" started with about an inch to heal across and is now quite small. The place where her arch should be is still convex instead of arched (concave). The good news is that the doctor thinks we can avoid a second sugery which would have been to put in a skin graft.
The travel to the wound clinic has been troublesome. She usually goes by wheelchair via the TriMet Lift. We have had two problems. One is that she had a very hard time squeezing into the 20" wheelchair one week. The next week she wouldn't fit at all. We put her in a bigger chair (28") but it didn't fit on the TriMet system. So we bagged the clinic visit (June 27). We also did not go to the clinic the following week because of holiday closure (July 4th). Her foot wound is healing nicely so the podiatrist is happy and will see her July 11th.
The second problem was running out of oxygen. We took a small tank that should have been adequate but it just wasn't enough. On June 27th we had two small tanks but didn't make the trip.
First I will tell you what has happened since the last blog update.
Second I will tell you what has happened this week since Tuesday (see next post).
Virginia is still totally non-weight bearing with her right foot. She is still not at home and has been at Hillsboro Rehab. She has been exercising in therapy sessions on Monday's, Wednesday's, Thursday's and Friday's. On Tuesday's we generally go to the Adventist Wound Clinic to see her podiatrist. She does not have therapy on the weekends.
She has been gradually increasing the time she can stand on her left leg (wound is on the right).
Initially, she could stand only 15-20 seconds but has worked up to a five minute stand. She is also doing upper body exercises. She gets sore after the upper body work.
If you use your left hand to form a letter "C" with your thumb and index finger you will have the shape and approximate size of her surgical wound. The "C" shaped flap is healing very well. The
bottom of the "C" where the old wound was located is healed over well. The skin edges were well approximated during surgery. The side of the "C" is quite narrow now (was about 1/2" apart). The top of the "C" started with about an inch to heal across and is now quite small. The place where her arch should be is still convex instead of arched (concave). The good news is that the doctor thinks we can avoid a second sugery which would have been to put in a skin graft.
The travel to the wound clinic has been troublesome. She usually goes by wheelchair via the TriMet Lift. We have had two problems. One is that she had a very hard time squeezing into the 20" wheelchair one week. The next week she wouldn't fit at all. We put her in a bigger chair (28") but it didn't fit on the TriMet system. So we bagged the clinic visit (June 27). We also did not go to the clinic the following week because of holiday closure (July 4th). Her foot wound is healing nicely so the podiatrist is happy and will see her July 11th.
The second problem was running out of oxygen. We took a small tank that should have been adequate but it just wasn't enough. On June 27th we had two small tanks but didn't make the trip.
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