11.13.17 Wound Check Update

Ed is driving Aimee home now. He first took Aimee in for bloodwork, which all looked appropriate given fighting off an infection. The wound care nurse looked over the incision, took photos, and agreed with the course of treatment that Ed had come up with already. Honestly, they are not the most creatively helpful with this process. 

She did restock our supplies and add some additional products to what we had at home, including healing strips with silver to place directly against the incision. There is a lot of irritation and it is not pretty for sure. She said that it is going to be really slow and we definitely need to keep the staples in despite the tears and inflamation, as they are still holding the sides of the wound together. There are some spots that are healing from the outside, but, as we had noticed, there are also some spots that are still open. It will be an ugly scar eventually. She tacked another week of antibiotics onto the end of the course Aimee is already taking, which will mean it will be nearly 1 month total. :( 

Basically from here, we will continue to have Aimee spend as much time as she will tolerate on her sides with the dressings open. We will keep wicking bandaging against the wound the rest of the time covered with a surgical iodine adhesive barrier to prevent contamination. We will keep tracking the progress ourselves to make sure that we see positive progress despite the ugliness. Still our biggest, most important focus is maintaining fluids and working to carefully increase food so that Aimee has the tools to heal. So, we will keep on keeping on this turtle track towards healing.