We received the bill from the hospital for putting in the PIC. That is the tube that is semi-permanently attached to Victoria to allow IVs and blood draws without new holes.
$1,947
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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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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