My experience at the new wound care center. The office was really nice, clean, comfortable. Even the waiting room chairs were wide enough to accommodate my fat butt and my tube coming out of my wound. But the wait time was bad. I waited in the waiting room an hour, damn I hate that. Finally taken into the exam room, waited there another 20 minutes. But then the nurse came in and she was very nice, very compassionate. She saw how anxious and upset I was and really soothed me. She then took apart the dressing, and after telling her how excruciating it was removing the foam, she soaked it with alot of lidocaine and stayed and talked to me until she was able to continue without much pain. She took measurements and pictures, and we discussed the need for some debridement of this one area. She put gauze in the wound and soaked the hell out of it with almost an entire tube of lidocaine and said she would have the doc wait a bit to come do the debridement scraping. So I'm laying on a gurney, facing the wall, with my butt to the door, this is how I met the dr. He comes in was also very nice, chatted a bit, he answered my questions better than the other one, then began this in office debridement surgical procedure. I felt him working, on it, but was not in pain. When he was done, he didn't stay too long, then the nice nurse redid the dressing and he ordered a adjustment to a higher pressure. I told her of all my issues with the vac dressings and leaks. She used something called Eakin seal. So now we see if dressing change person #5 is the charm.
I came home exhausted and now in pain. I called the infectious dr office to see if I could just talk to the dr instead of coming in, I'm really not in the mood for another dr today. I find out he is not even there today, so I just rescheduled him for next week.
The wound place wanted me to come every week, I said no thanks, 2 weeks would be fine.
That was my fun day. Just took 2 Percocet and a zanax, and I'm going to bed.
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