That alarm this morning was very impolite.
We got up and drove out to WEC. No issues with the IV. Nursing staff is polite and professional in the IV department.
We were done and out of there at 8:40.
On Thursday another man was in IV. His arm was very dusky and swollen. He wore a walking cast and his other arm was mottled. We watched as staff tried to get another line in and tried to be less invasive. Kinda hard to do in a 10 x 20' room full of chairs for IVs.
We saw him again yesterday, obviously on his way into WEC for his daily IV. This morning, we talked for a few minutes. He had an infection in the toe and lost part of the bone. He was healing, but also had a PIC put in for daily IV antibiotics. On Thursday a clot formed near the PIC line and it was a close thing. This was something we were not aware of possibly happening.
He was doing a larger percentage of his medical stuff at home and that might have had some impact, but it was clear he was more interested in coming in every day into the future to prevent such a problem recurring. He was 3 weeks into treatment. We are just passing 1.
Did I post this? We are looking for a wide wheelchair. The Wheelchair Recycling place does not have one and the cost of new is prohibitive. Renting is over $250 a month. Let me know if you know of one out there.
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Our daily dealings with a severe diabetic ulcer and the medical world
Cast of Helpers
Diabetic ulcers take a large amount of work by a lot of different people. These are the people helping us and where they work:
Home Clinic (5 miles) - Victoria's primary care doctor and local emergency care center (EMs)
ID - Clinic on other side of town (15 miles) where she gets her weekday IV and that houses WN, DrIV, BugN and CT
WEC - Weekend Clinic for IV only, further away from home (20 miles)
DrPri - Victoria's Primary Care Physician. We have been with her for about 7 months.
DrPod - Podiatrist at ID
DrIV - Dr supervising the infection and antibiotic treatment
DrIV#2 - Other Dr on this team
BugN - Nurse supervising the actual infection, works with DrIVs
WN - Nurse with a specialty in wound care. All she does is wound work.
IN - Infusion nurses actually do the IV work (there are 4 of them that rotate - although we see a total of 7 between weekends and covers)
CT - Cast technicians/sculptors (2 of them)
Dr Sur - Surgical Doctor with reputation of working well with diabetic ulcers
Insurer: we have no insurance. Diabetics are extremely hard to get insurance for and the state pool was too expensive for us to keep up with 2 years ago when the bk law changed
Home Clinic (5 miles) - Victoria's primary care doctor and local emergency care center (EMs)
ID - Clinic on other side of town (15 miles) where she gets her weekday IV and that houses WN, DrIV, BugN and CT
WEC - Weekend Clinic for IV only, further away from home (20 miles)
DrPri - Victoria's Primary Care Physician. We have been with her for about 7 months.
DrPod - Podiatrist at ID
DrIV - Dr supervising the infection and antibiotic treatment
DrIV#2 - Other Dr on this team
BugN - Nurse supervising the actual infection, works with DrIVs
WN - Nurse with a specialty in wound care. All she does is wound work.
IN - Infusion nurses actually do the IV work (there are 4 of them that rotate - although we see a total of 7 between weekends and covers)
CT - Cast technicians/sculptors (2 of them)
Dr Sur - Surgical Doctor with reputation of working well with diabetic ulcers
Insurer: we have no insurance. Diabetics are extremely hard to get insurance for and the state pool was too expensive for us to keep up with 2 years ago when the bk law changed
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