Today was a dressing change day, and we found both good and bad results. The wound itself looks better, thankfully. But I just couldn't bear to put the wound vac back on once I got a look at the skin around her wound. The drape used to protect her skin while the vac was doing its job caused major irritation and it was practically raw. We're not due to go back to the wound healing center till Monday, so we made an executive decision to apply the type of dressing she used previously until then. For two whole days she gets to be untethered...no wound vac to haul around. (Have I ever mentioned that she named her wound vac "Bennie", short for Ben Dover?!!) She's pretty happy about being unencumbered. You'd think she'd want to go dancing or something. Instead she and her sister are curled up on the sofa watching an old Esther Williams movie! Laura leaves tomorrow to head back and face finals at the CO School of Mines, so a mindless evening is just what she needs right now.
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and some ice cream!
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