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See below for how the wound is looking. Getting bored seeing the overgranulation and the top 1/4 is still stinging and painful when they try to remove slough. I have near finished the antibiotics and its still looking very red and angry. However there was very little exudate and there has been now for a week so maybe the fucibet is working or the antibiotics or the prontosan or.... i dont know.
double tubigrip went…
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I have always liked this song but it seems apt for many of us who have, have had or know people with cancer.
Please have a listen...maybe you can come back with a song that means something to you at a time when things have seemed unfair or songs that inspire you when you need that feeling that you are not alone.
Maybe if there are enough songs then I can put together a MacMillan "Songs of Inspiration" CD together…
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7am this morning has the dressing changed. it had been a really bad weekend for dressings all the way back from thursday. tubigrip had pushed the dressing down and all the fucibet out of the wound. also there were pressure wounds and a nasty blister under one of the bigger pieces of micropore. so today we decided that less was more so the leg did not have a bulge where there would is. today was cooler too so the…
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this is what the nurse had to say... well it was the macmillan nurse who is great at dressings... but she was able to give me a 7am appointment so i could go to work afterwards as she knows im getting grief at work
she said that the swab taken at the walk in centre last weekend showed growth of staphylococcus aureus, streptococci and anaerobes and therefore i have been given a course of augmentin, a broader spectrum…
Hi... Hope everyone is enjoying the good weather?
Today i went for re dressing at the walk in centre,... below are the photos
just a warning about tubigrip single or double... well at least in my case... there was nothing between my skin and the tubigrip. so over 2 days of hot weather and the tubigrip moving... a blister happened under one of the peices of micropore holding the pad in place. so when the plaster was…
