UPDATE 03/19/22
I asked Steve to text me an update for you all, which he is allowing me to share. Next post contains pics. They’re not pretty, so fair warning.
“So several not so good updates:
Ortho apt. March 17th:
I went Thursday, March 17th for my follow up. My ortho doctor is a 2 hour drive so it’s hard on me. Every bump or turn in the road is excruciating.
They took the splint cast off because they wanted to uncover the wounds to help with the healing process bc of all of the scabbing and road rash. They also removed the stitches and staples.
I asked again bc so many ppl have asked me if they knew the # of stitches and they didn’t. Their reply was they did not know but it was a lot and they’d had to use several different types of stitches.
I asked if they removed them all and they said yes. Unfortunately, today someone showed me I still have 2 staples in that I think they missed. I can’t bend my leg to see the outside of my right ankle and that’s where they are. So I’m extremely worried and it’s given me massive anxiety. To the point of where Im having to resist freaking out and having to resist taking them out.
And something else terrible from the doctors appointment is they wouldn’t refill the muscle relaxers or pain medication. The dose of pain meds they had me on was already very low. They told me that my primary care physician had to take this part over. I do understand that BUT what I don’t understand is why they waited until I ran out to tell me that and why they never communicated it to my primary care doctor.
I’m not one for pain meds, I never have been. But there’s a place for them. And if getting hit by a car and being in the condition I’m on doesn’t warrant the use of them, I don’t understood. Bc the pain is unbearable. And without the muscle relaxers, the damaged calf keeps knitting up and spasming and is opening the cuts and road rash.
But the worst part - at the appointment where they took the staples and stitches out, they wrapped me for a boot and said when I went home they said to unwrap and let air get to it. When I took the wrap off, the big incision on my leg split open. Like completely came open. Bad bleeding.
I called emergency number for ortho and no one called me back. That was the 17th. The morning of the 18th, the home healthcare pt person came said I needed to go back to doctor bc of the incision coming loose. The ortho is 2 hours away. Apt was set for 3:10. It was currently 11:45. There is a doctors office next door to our office about 300 yards away. But no one to take me by car so had to literally be wheeled down sidewalk to doctor. Once there, they agreed definitely needed go back to ortho for the incision. So that led to 4 hours in car (round trip) w no pain meds with every bump and turn being excruciating. They didn’t want to re-stitch so they put some silver dressing on and light wrapped it. As of now, scared to even unwrap the bandage bc have bled thru the silver dressing and the gauze. And terrible swelling in my foot - like balloon size.
I always try to be a strong, positive, and uplifting person and this is the part where I feel like I’m supposed to just say I’m okay; but I’m pretty much a wreck.”
