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Andyp wrote:Far me it for me to give advice but my secondhand experience of district nurses is that they need to be told what to do by a clinician and not left to their own devices.
Would a visit to a dermatologist not be in order?
RogerS wrote:Thanks Roger. Was yours a 'superficial' scrape or did you take out a chunk of flesh ?.
Lons wrote:...
Email me a photo Roger and I'll ask my wife and daughter what their opinions are.
Artiglio wrote:Age and low oxygen levels are it seems massively influential in healing. Whilst a completely different injury , i broke my humerus in 2018 at 53 years old , consultant said that had i been 10 years younger it’d have healed in 6-8 weeks , if i were 10 years older/ smoker/unfit/overweight/ poor diet not all just one or two he’d have given it 4 weeks and if not happy with progress pinned it, which basically was a big spike driven down via the shoulder. Which apparently makes a right mess of the shoulder.
As it was it took 16 weeks to heal enough to be able to even sleep in bed and 20 weeks before i could drive.
I was a saturation diver, knocks and bumps to the hands were part of the job, at storage depth in the chambers healing was a slow process and regular diving meant you had to put up with it. During decompression O2 levels are elevated, you could fall asleep with an annoying weepy cut and wake up with it apparently fully healed.
If you don’t get any healing soon ask if your nhs trust has access to elevated oxygen treatments in a decompression chamber, it can have almost miraculous results. The chambers are usually operated by organisations involved in diving or caisson work and nhs buys treatment time.
https://www.hyperbaricoxygentherapy.org.uk/find-chamber
RogerS wrote:
"Oh and your wound is healing too quickly and is over-granulating !"
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