I was commenting on another post here, and I got to thinking. Surely some of these patients have developed pressure ulcers. I worked in a rehab hospital with spinal patients and tbi patients who were much younger, healthier, and lighter than the people on the show who came to us with bedsores. I've seen relatively mobile, but super morbidly obese, patients with stage 4 pressure ulcers (where cartilage, muscle, or bone can be exposed). These patients were still more active than a lot of the people on the show.
A lot of the people on the show are barely mobile - some completely bed bound - and I highly doubt they turn themselves often enough to avoid developing pressure ulcers. But I can't remember anyone mentioning they had one. I could see someone not noticing a stage 1, but these wounds have a tendency to get out of control if not for the intervention of professionals. I find it very hard to believe that at least one person hasn't had at least a stage 3.
At her age death would have been ruled Natural Causes if not for the bedsores.
That was one of the first things they would have taught him about her care, after feeding and cleaning her. They would have warned of the dangers of leaving her in one position too long the moment they taught him how to tuck the pillows in around her to prevent her from flailing herself into an unsafe position. They would have mentioned the painful wounds that had eventually opened up all along her back, arms, and legs. The possibility of the sepsis that killed her would have been on the tip of their tongue.
But bedsores are bedsores and they proved, at the very least, Negligent Homicide.
As the Jury filters out of the courtroom after passing their guilty verdict they ask among themselves one question; widower or not, what sort of father never holds their baby?
30F, 180ish, 5'5", drinks often, smokes (tobacco) never. Found what appears to be a bedsore in the top of my butt in the cleft near the tailbone on Sunday. Scratched an itch through my underwear, it burned, and when I changed I saw that there was residue - checked and there was some form of flat open wound that I'm assuming is a pressure sore. I have been cleaning it with soap and water in the shower, wiping with alcohol preps /hydrogen peroxide for good measure when I come out, and band-aiding it since that day at least once a day, sometimes twice. Been trying to stand at my desk more or sit in a way that doesn't squish my crack, but you know, sitting. Not the easiest to avoid squishing one's butt.
I think it looks less angry (there were white and red spots, really hard to see the top of your own asscrack clearly, but now it's just pink. There was never any redness around the sore), but there are few things more annoying than trying to put a bandaid in your own butt, and it doesn't seem like it's getting much smaller since then. Do I just have some unrealistic expectations? Do I need to go to the doctor for something to help it heal? Thanks in advance, and let me know if you need any more information.
If all goes well I will be having stage 1 phallo in spring next year. My surgeon does stages one and two together, so I will be getting urethral lengthening and hookup in the first operation. Although this is convenient because I will be able to STP 2 weeks after surgery (if all goes well) the downside is that recovery will be a bit rougher. I will be completely bed-bound for the first 7 days post-op (in hospital for 2 weeks), meaning no standing, no walking, and minimal movement.
Does anyone have tips on how to deal with being stuck in bed for that long? How do you avoid pressure points and bedsores? Anything I should bring with me to help me deal with it?
