Healing . . .

 Judie's pressure wound is healing well.  We are neat the end.  We were told to pack up the vacuum pump and ship back to the owner's.  No butt patches, drape tape or vacuum leaks to contend with anymore.  Iy has been along trial.

Now using a different bandage, with a transfer gauze patch.  The wound has grown more and more closed.  It is now less than a  quarter in size from was one a fist wide gape.  She is more comfortable and perhaps less turning left and right.  She will continue to live on an air pressure bed.

The bed has an air pump and runs through a cycle, four minutes with half the tubes inflated, then four minutes with the other half of the tubes inflated and then four minutes with all the tubes inflated.  It is nothing you can feel but it does the trick to prevent pressure sores from developing.  It took several months for them to develop probably while she was in the rehab hospital.

I believe the surgeon who cleaned them out was a butcher, cut her up something fierce to get all the bad areas out.  I think he did more than he had to do but I am not the surgeon and that is all in the past now.

We still have a couple more visits to the Baylor Scott and White wound care clinic to go.  But we can see the end is in sight now and are pleased we are getting over that.

We seemed to have learned everything the hard way.  Her heart surgery, day surgery, was far more severe than we thought it would be.  She is still sore in spots on where the worked on her.  But the clip is installed on her heart and after two bouts with A-Fib, the A-Fib has all but disappeared.  And the risk of a stroke is greatly reduced to almost nothing now.  In reality it was a mile stone and we are now past it.  He Cardiologist says one more visit three months from now and then probably not again for a year.  Sounds great to me.

And it is a little cooler today, a rain storm past over us and we had a light shower.  It is all dry already and soon the temperature will soar again.  This time the humidity will be off the scale so it will not be comfortable for the rest of the day.  We of course will be just fine in the air conditioned house.

Now we need to hear from Generac that they have our back up generator and will install it.  Ida caused a further delay as they sent all the generators to Louisiana.  That was kind of disappointing with the further delay but very understandable.  The Generac guy started to him and haw, and I said I paid for this thing back in April and I was getting tired of waiting.  If not installed by October I will consider cancelling the order.  They keep advertising their products but neglect to tell you they can not deliver them.  A sorry out fit.

And the beat goes on . . .