I went into Kings College Hospital Diabetic Foot Clinic this morning for my first study foot treatment. More pictures were taken of the wound and they said it seemed to be healing. This is good, but I don’t get out of the treatment yet.
It’s an ultrasound treatment that is applied to the wound. The kicker is that, depending on which envelope I picked out of a box, it could be a dummy treatment or the real thing. Only the nurse applying the treatment knows which one was used.
The machine looks like a printer and sounds a bit like a very lethargic popcorn machine. There were two nurses there, a very cute Filipino male nurse and a black female nurse. I was quite disappointed when the male nurse told me he was recovering from surgery to fix a blockage in his vas deferens so he could father children. Darn!
I will be getting a payment at the end of this that will be useful, I think. Even if I got the dummy treatment, they are paying more attention to my foot and that’s all to the good. I got a huge shopping bag of goodies to dress the foot with and instructions on how to do it. They also gave me a boot, shown in two beautiful pictures below, that’s designed to take pressure off the ulcer and allow it to heal. The problem is that it’s very difficult to walk in it and I need a cane to keep from falling over. It feels like there is a great big rubber ball under the arch of my foot. The pictures are here:
I go back on Monday for the second treatment. Hurray. Monday afternoon I go to the Diabetic Clinic at St. Thomas’s to gently tell them that I gave up the lizard spit because of the side effects and demand to go on insulin. Oh joy…
It is a cool looking boot, though.
Keep that foot looked after.
I’m glad you are getting some good help with it.
That boot does look awkward but if it helps the wound heal the it’s worth it.