wound care Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/wound-care/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:16:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 31053421 Fingers Crossed https://livingwithscleroderma.com/fingers-crossed/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/fingers-crossed/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:00:02 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=4980 So, now things get a little more complicated. Last Thursday, when the Wound Center team checked my progress, the vascular surgeon thought that my left middle finger tip was colonized by an opportunistic bacteria common in wounds called pseudomonas. What I had taken to be some incidental spots had turned a pale green, which she […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/fingers-crossed/feed/ 2 4980 Deep Dive https://livingwithscleroderma.com/deep-dive/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/deep-dive/#respond Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:00:48 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=4941 I began hyperbaric oxygen therapy this week. I was nervous on Monday, but for anyone considering this treatment, I can now, based on my first adventure, assure you that it’s not as scary as it sounds. One of my biggest worries has been figuring out how to do my finger dressings using materials that are […]

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