I just joined about a week ago, Dana. :) I'm still under a year since my injury. It's so nice to be able to communicate with experienced quads!
On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:26 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I'm glad you had such a good experience Mandy. I don't think I know you. When > did you start contributing to the list. I must've missed your post while I > was in the hospital > > I will really try to get pictures as mine were just made by the orthotist > from scratch. > Dana > > thank you for the website information Don. > > In a message dated 8/2/2012 1:49:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > They're worldwide: > http://www.hanger.com/Pages/default.aspx > > Don. > > From: Mandy <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 7:30 AM > Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] sore > Hangar is nationwide (I think they're worldwide, actually). I had a brace > made by them at the Englewood, CO office and just as you said, the orthotist > I had was also intuitive. He was also pleasant, caring, and put me at ease > right away. Not to mention he had cute dimples. :D > > Prayers coming your way. Good grief...sounds like you've been through enough > lately! > > Mandy > On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:44 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi Paul,I have had a horrific sore on my heel for two months with a wound >> vacuum, two weeks ago I had a skin graft and I've had to keep my heel >> offset, since May 4, when the surgeon left the external fixater on my >> heel too tight and did not check for seven days after foot drop surgery. I >> lost some of my heel, the plastic surgeon calls it a divet. My orthotist >> made 2 really great apparatuses, one to wear in BED and one to wear in my >> wheelchair. I wish you would put them on the market. It would be so >> beneficial for anyone with heel problems. I will try to get my friend to >> take pictures so you can see what was made. They work wonderfully.The >> company my orthotist works for is hangar's, and I don't know if they are >> nationwide. No one at KU could figure out what to do. The OT's for the >> orthotist that KU used which was the same company. This orthotist is just >> really intuitive.I hope you're orthotist can copy something like I have. >> Medicare paid for this. My caregiver burned my hand and wrist into hot >> water. Second degree burns, it's going to take a lot long time to heal. I go >> to the plastic surgeon each Monday. He doesn't think it will need a skin >> graft. I would appreciate your prayers.I'm glad to be back at home and able >> to read the quad list.DanaC4-5, I had my 38 th anniversary last Thursday, >> while in the hospital for UTI. I seem to be having a lot of UTI problems, I >> have a ileal conduit since 1986 as a result of bladder cancer. Suburb close >> to Kansas City on the Kansas side.I had a septic UTI in May and the >> infectious disease doctors talked about putting me on a antibiotic daily but >> they said if one take away another antibiotic to be used when I have a UTI, >> so they decided not to do. Last week I found I had an allergic reaction to >> vancomycin, another drug they cannot use now. I wish they could come up with >> a better way to treat and prevent UTIs. What do others do with this problem? >> In a message dated 7/28/2012 6:25:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> Hi Paul, >> I had one last year and kept it elevated during sleep. Irrigated it with >> saline between showers. I used Bacitracin one day and Dermawound the next. I >> also keep it elevated since at night as a precaution. >> >> Patrick C6-7 22yrs >> >> --- On Sat, 7/28/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> Subject: [QUAD-L] sore >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Saturday, July 28, 2012, 2:25 PM >> >> Hi Everyone, >> I just had a small pressure sore open up on my right ankle.I would like to >> ask you all which is your first line of defense when this happens? >> Thank you!Paul
