Wow, it's been a week and he walks like a champ with this shoe boot thing.
He went to see his new guy this morning.

We've been using the regranex for one week, wrapping him up, (covering the psoriasis lesions on his calf because the boot irritates them).

Well, he goes there this morning, the doctor did a little debriding (much less then he has had before), then the doctor says "wow, your ulcer is healing very nicely, looks good. So this is what I want you to do from now until next week when you come back". Tell Melody to put bacitracin (and he gave him little packets), starting tomorrow morning. Then on Sunday, go back to the Regranex, because your ulcer is healing." "Then, when you come back next
Wednesday, if all looks good, we'll have you do one hour a day with your regular shoes, and then we'll see about two hours a day after that".

Alan explained the whole thing to me, I couldn't go with him because he left at 7 a.m. and I am not human until at least 9 a.m. (lol).

Alan also brought his new orthotics (just made for him) together with his orthopedic shoes, and showed them to the doctor. He said 'these look terrific, but we won't know how you'll do with them, until you start the one hour thing'. Perhaps the orthotics might need to be modified a bit. We won't know until he uses them.

So far, so good. Alan is healing. He's walking very good with the Cam Walker. Way better than the off loading shoe.

We should have done this last year. Oh well. At least we did it.

Now all my bills are about bandages, paper tapes and gauze pads.
lol

Melody