Pretty darn good ... having a lot of pain in my right calf but good news at wound center yesterday ... my tests from the hospital indicated I have really good arteries and bloodflow in both legs ...they did similar test at wound center, don't understand why it was done again except hospital one seemed more detailed ...it is just the shin wound area that needs better oxygen ... I have been to the doctor about 10 times in the past 3 weeks and have to go tomorrow only for a brief nurse visit. She put a compression wrap on leg from knee down as last thing yesterday. I knew it was too tight. She said don't take it off and don't get it wet. It hurt so bad last night, I took it off at 12:15 a.m. this morning ... and I tore it
... now it will look obvious to the nurse in the morning that I removed it or adjusted it. I will tell the truth. Although pain is my companion, I honestly believe I am on the road to the shin wound being well. The doctor scraped it out and cleaned it yesterday. Even with the medicine to make it numb, it still hurt a lot. I think I know why. The doctor came strolling in at 4:25 and my appt to see him was at 3:00. A nurse put the numbing stuff on it at 3:50 so it had 35 minutes to become less effective. At one point when he was scraping the inside of it, I yelled "stop now" with so much force, I think it shocked him ... he did become somewhat less vigorous with his task. And on Tuesday, I am not exaggerating, they almost pinched my left leg off doing the arterial segmented ultrasound at the hospital. One time I yelled "take it off now" .. she did and first said some of our arteries are deeper than others and she had to stop all the blood flow to get a good reading ... then added all embarrassed -like --- ooops, it had extra air in it and held it on her chest to mash it flat. I told her she only had one more go at it in that segment of my leg. Thank goodness I had tucked my little friend away to protect from serious injury.
I watched her closely after that to ensure every time she removed that "squeeze you to death gadget" after a test and inched it down my leg, she squeezed the air out of it before putting it back on and going again.
I was so happy to leave there! My friend in the waiting room at the hospital said to me as we were leaving,"that was you I heard yelling wasn't it?" I said "hellpecker yes, they almost pinched off my good leg." Heh Heh! We managed to have fun, took photos of each other in the waiting room before I was called ... and even got a few disgusted eye rolls.