Paula's Busy Week

Paula had a pretty eventful (and stressful) week. Tuesday her wound specialist saw her, and laid out a pretty regimented plan for the week, which included visits to two different hospitals and a skin graft surgery on a small wound on the front of her leg on Friday. On Wednesday she went back to Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn to see her Pain Management Specialist and he changed and increased her pain medication to see if they could get her more comfortable. The trip, with all the jostling around and walking and waiting was very exhausting and by the afternoon she was in quite a bit of pain. Thursday was spent recovering from Wednesday and dreading Friday. Yesterday she went to St. James Hospital in Olympia Fields where Dr. Ennis did her skin graft. Everything went according to plans, and she was sent back to Crestwood Care with a wound vac placed on her leg to draw drainage out and away from the wound to promote healing. Now we wait and see how the leg responds to the new donor tissue. As I get more info and/or results I will update.