Terry's Scary Wound!

Back in June of 2022, Terry's bursa sack burst. This has happened before, and he usually gets an antibiotic and everything is all good. This time, it was a newer doctor and I don't think he realized how bad this can be and didn't prescribe a strong enough antibiotic so.......it burst OUTWARD like a blister. Well, that is all fine and dandy, but it wouldn't heal, and Terry had a little hole in his leg. Finally in September, he went in and it was determined that he needed surgery to clean it out. (Turns out he is REALLY lucky because our best friend Brett had a sore on his elbow that wouldn't heal, and it ended up killing him. That is a different post). A few weeks after the surgery, it started swelling up again. The infection had returned. He had to have surgery AGAIN, and this time a wound vac was added. 

This is right after the second surgery...

It became a presence, so we named it Kwato from the movie Total Recall...

This is what it looked like at the first dressing change. It was brutal because the surgeon STUFFED the sponge WAY down in, and it was really hard to get out. Yes, you can see his tibia.....

Here it is a couple of weeks later. It is starting to grow tissue..

    

This was around mid January when Kwato finally came off. It is amazing to me that the body knew when to make new capillaries and when to make the skin. SO cool!

                                                   

Even better! 

   

This picture was taken at work, and the neon light makes it look bad again!

This is how it looked on the day that the wound care service discharged him.

  

  

This was SO scary, especially because Brett died of complications that arose from a scratch on his elbow that didn't heal.