Doctor Visit and Healing Progress at 20 Days

Even more progress on the healing. Pics are the smaller wound inside of my ankle and the larger wound that is on the outside of my ankle. Progressing well! The yellow "stuff' inside the wound the doctor says is just fatty tissue... weird to me buuuuut as long as it is not infection that is my biggest concern!!! But with the PICC line and IV antibiotics 3 times a day who could get an infection.

Amazing Healing Process 18 Days Later

The healing on my wound is amazing how much has filled in only 18 days. Not the greatest of pics though sorry but you can get a pretty good idea at the difference.

RESULTS are in and PICC Line is now installed

They have the results are in and the infection is officially been determined to be Staph. Uggg, that is not good news but the bright side is that it is not MRSA the resistant strain of Staph.

Pics of the PICC Line in my arm and my meds.

Wound VACC has been attached.

So with the huge holes that I have in my ankle there was talk of doing skin grafts and all that but the wound specialist came in and has decided to use a wound vacc on my ankle. The idea and purpose is they pack the wound with a sponge and then put a plastic material over the entire area to create a vacuum lock and create suction on the wound which will pull all fluids away from the wound and also give the stimulation to the wound to help encourage growth of the skin to fill in the holes. Similar to what they use leeches for from time to time in medical procedures.

Holy Smokes Batman...This one is GRAPHIC!!

I had my second surgery yesterday which was an I.N.D. to remove the infection from my ankle. Let me tell you I DID NOT expect what I saw today and the amount they had to remove. They have gone all the way down to the bone in fact when the nurse was in to re pack the wound she was poking around in there and said "Ohhhh I see bone right there... and I can see the head of one of the screws they used to put together the bone.... Awwwwwwww I was ok until she said that.... I don't know why that part freaked me out and made my skin crawl more then seeing the wound itself. Pictures for you below......

Here are some pics for you of the outside of my ankle is above (biggest hole) and the inside of my ankle (smaller wound) is below.

They also removed the rod out of my heel during this surgery soooo the good thing is that saves me from another surgery which would have been in a couple of weeks. Check out the hole in the bottom of my heel ewwwwwwww.....

I have an Infectiion and Re-Admitted to Hospital

So I have not been feeling well and there is a new and different pain in my ankle and I called the doctors office and told them I need to come in and have them take the cast off to look at my ankle, things just don't seem right and their little window system is not working we can not get thru all the cotton and wraps to see what things look like, however when opening the windows today there was a foul smell. So off to the Ortho Clinic we went. I told the doctor how I felt and what I was feeling and he kinda looked at me as if I was crazy but after insisting they take the cast off he finally agreed, and the reaction of the casting person was ohhhhhhh no.... reaction of doctor was UH OH!!!  I was immediately started on being admitted back to the hospital for an infection of both incision sites on my ankle. It is pretty nasty one too. They have taken cultures to find what type of infection this is but in the meantime tomorrow I will have to have surgery to remove the infection. Uggggg our concerns have come to reality!!

You can see the infection here in this pic.