Hi. I think he's debriding the ulcer, and the callus that forms around it, well when Alan steps on it, it hurts him, and when he walks out of the podiatrist's office, he always says "Ah"!!!!!

Tonight I checked his sock and it was bloody. His doctor had prepared me for this. I told Alan "let's clean you up and I'll put a new dressing on it".

I took off everything (oh, I remembered what the doctor said when he asked me to sit next to him and he showed me Alan's foot, he said "good granulation, wow, look at that". So whatever good granulation is, Alan's is good.

After I cleaned him up, I used the saline wash, took off the dried blood, I took a q-tip and put a dab of the Santyl in the wound, covered with a non stick gauze, then another gauze, and then I wrapped the covering bandage around it. He is good to go. I read up on this Santyl. It has had good results in people with pressure ulcers.

I would have made a good nurse.

lol

Melody
P.S. Do you know that when I came home, I cooked dinner, served him, cleaned my kitchen, dressed his bandages, AND THEN I DID MY SPROUTS!!!

Thank goodness I drink wheatgrass juice. lol