Flurry of Activity
Today Bob had his last hours of inpatient OT and PT at Sea Pines. He will still have home health care coming to the house to provide therapy, and may possibly continue to attend outpatient therapy at Sea Pines, too.
The representative from Kindred Hospital met with us today to confirm they will be providing wound care for Bob at home. His nurse will come to assess on Saturday, and the regular visits for dressing changes will begin next week Monday (changes will still happen three times a week, M/W/F).
The representative from KCI (the vac therapy company) met with us today, assigned the portable vacuum unit to us, and trained us on how to operate the ActiVAC model that will be going home with Bob tomorrow. In addition to the unit, he also gave us supplies for 5 dressing changes. The boxes are large, but very light. I brought home as much as I could from his room today, so that we won't have too much to carry besides these boxes with us tomorrow.
Our "to-go" wound vac pile for Friday.
Wound Vac Therapy
Quite a few people have asked us about the wound vac therapy and how/why it's effective. Below is a 3-minute animated video that explains how the dressings are applied and how the system promotes faster healing while greatly reducing chance of infection. Bob's wound is still 18.3cm/7.2" long x 5.8cm/2.3" wide x 1.7cm/.67" deep, so when the sponge is removed and then replaced, he still has considerable pain, especially when the vacuum is turned back on over the newly packed dressing.
Considering Bob's wound itself has already reduced 2.1cm/0.83" in width and 2.3cm/0.9" in depth over the past weeks using wound vac therapy, with no infection at all, I think the system is great!
Quite a few people have asked us about the wound vac therapy and how/why it's effective. Below is a 3-minute animated video that explains how the dressings are applied and how the system promotes faster healing while greatly reducing chance of infection. Bob's wound is still 18.3cm/7.2" long x 5.8cm/2.3" wide x 1.7cm/.67" deep, so when the sponge is removed and then replaced, he still has considerable pain, especially when the vacuum is turned back on over the newly packed dressing.
Considering Bob's wound itself has already reduced 2.1cm/0.83" in width and 2.3cm/0.9" in depth over the past weeks using wound vac therapy, with no infection at all, I think the system is great!
Promise, only animation, no real stuff.
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