{"id":37509,"date":"2019-09-01T14:20:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37509"},"modified":"2019-09-01T20:28:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T03:28:22","slug":"some-sunday-skee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/01\/some-sunday-skee\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Sunday SKEE! [ADDENDUM WRT Leg Wound Care &#8211; DETAILED}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be very short: To start the week off with a positive outlook, here&#8217;s a Mommy sea otter cuddling her one-day old pup (or can also be called a kitten).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1 Day Old Sea Otter Trying to Sleep on Mom\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/de6uTMEiZf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I actually first saw it in a Twitter post &#8211; and I think it&#8217;s actually cuter.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just hard to overdose on SKEE!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Take a break and de-stress by watching this otter cuddle it\u2019s baby\u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\ude0a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0zblGhhiWB\">pic.twitter.com\/0zblGhhiWB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QasimRashid\/status\/1165612875777544192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>ADDENDUM WRT Leg Wound Care<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After sharing w\/ the nurse that when I changed the dressing on Thursday evening the wound looked WORSE from the day before (RHST), the Wound Care Clinic nurse, upon removing the dressings, agreed: &#8220;This is NOT a happy wound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She called the surgeon \u2013 but only left a voicemail.<\/p>\n<p>So she called the ER and their Charge Nurse had me come down.<\/p>\n<p>The ER doc agreed this was the WRONG way to progress on the wound, and ordered a CBC, Lactate (evaluates for sepsis) and a deep vein Ultrasound to be sure I had no thrombosis (blood clot).<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, everything came back normal. So I went back to the Wound Care Clinic for the wound packing and dressing.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I told the nurse that after they changed from Hydrofera Blue to Iodosorb last Wednesday, on leaving &amp; on the way to the parking lot the wound started to burn like pouring rubbing alcohol on an open wound.<\/p>\n<p>That burning lasted through Friday, and by Saturday it quit (or I was acclimated to it).<\/p>\n<p>I shared this w\/ the nurse before she put the Iodosorb packing backing into the wound. So she called the Wound Care Nurse Practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>They switched back to the Hydrofera Blue packing (but this nurse packed a LOT more of it in the wound than previously \u2026 and w\/ NO lidocaine gel).<\/p>\n<p>Saturday not only did I feel much better, but on the dressing change that evening it looked <em><u>much<\/u><\/em> better.<\/p>\n<p>That improvement pattern continued today (Sunday), so I&#8217;m hopeful that it was just a reaction to the caustic iodine in the Iodosorb.<\/p>\n<p>I have a recheck on Wednesday, and I&#8217;m supposed to change the Hydrofera Blue packing w\/ tomorrow&#8217;s dressing change.<\/p>\n<p>That will <strong><u>NOT<\/u><\/strong> be the highlight of my day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be very short: To start the week off with a positive outlook, here&#8217;s a Mommy sea otter cuddling her one-day old pup (or can also be called a kitten). I actually first saw it in a Twitter post &#8211; and I think it&#8217;s actually cuter.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just hard to overdose on SKEE! &nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/01\/some-sunday-skee\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}