So I'm about to lose my right foot.

Looks like modern art. :nerd:

Have you got a key to the colours, or is the pattern the thing? I take it the bright area is the wound?

 

What is ketchup?
Thanks markderail for posting that video, and that is a real Aussie attitude.
What ever happens TJ, you will still be you and we all love who you are.
Good luck with the treatments mate.

 

No, SciFi would involve a few nanoseconds of tricorder activity, and you'd be back to active duty before the commercial.

 

wow....that wound looks bad. didnt realize that you lost that much flesh there. hard to see, but sure looks like a pretty large chunk missing there.

was some of that removed to clean infected skin??

as far as your previous post, you said you might know more in 6 weeks? does that mean you are on meds to hopefully fight this off?

 

Eighty bucks for a band aid? Talk about rubbing salt in the wound - figuratively and literally.

 

Goog luck with your health TJ you've are great contributor to Prius Chat. Don't want those cartoons to stop coming!

 

I don't know if you received a data card with the two dressings or not, but here is the info.

1. Mepilex. URL: Mepilex Dressings Datacard Cliff-Notes version: The wound contact surface of Mepilex is coated with a layer of soft silicone that does not stick to the surface of a wound or cause trauma to delicate new tissue upon removal.

2. Mesalt. URL: Mölnlycke Health Care - Mesalt® Cliff-Notes version: The discharge from the wound releases the sodium chloride from the dressing. Mesalt effectively stimulates the cleansing of wounds in the inflammatory phase by absorbing exudate, bacteria and necrotic material from the wound, thereby facilitating the natural wound healing process.

I don't want to cause any friction with your care provider(s), but $80 seems a bit on the high side. Direct Medical (URL: Mesalt ) appears to be pricing at less than the $80 territory.

Hope the above helps.

 

If you go to Direct Medical, apparently you can order Mesalt online for what seems to be much less than $80 per package. I don't know the size of sheet/strip you are using, so it might be a circumstance where Direct Medical does not sell the size of sheet/strip you need. However, the Mesalt product appears to be stocked in both the sheet as well as the roll. One application is to pack thin strips from the roll of Mesalt into the wound cavity. The thin strip/roll is sold by Direct Medical, so it would seem to be an option.... Direct Medical sells sheets of Mesalt, if sheets are placed on top of the wound....

Separately, Direct Medical sells the Mepilex bandages as well (URL: http://www.directmedicalinc.com/wound/prod_det_mepilex.html#buy ). If you are using the 6"x6" bandage, Direct Medical sells a 5 pack for $62.97 (which admittedly is high, but not $80 high). If you are using the 8"x8" bandage, $80 for a package of 5 is actually better than Direct Medical ($97.44).

Hope this helps.

EDIT: I have no connection to Direct Medical. They just popped up on a search that I ran for online vendors of Mepilex and Mesalt.

 

Hi TJ. I hope you haven't been in much pain through this ordeal. Like Efusco I wish you didn't photo shop that wound picture. I was going to compare it to the gaping hole on my father's neck from melanoma surgery he just had.

I'll be praying for you and F8TL and all the others in the PriusChat community going through health related trials. There are lots of hard decisions to make, so I'll pray that you get the best advice and find some peaceful times during all the stress.

 

$80 is high but typical. ask daniel, they accidentally billed him direct instead of his private insurer. bill was like $50,000 ( not sure of amount, but ratio is the important thing here). well he told them so they billed his insurance company. well the insurance company comes back with charge of like $21,000 of which he paid a percentage of that.

so the fact you dont have insurance basically means you will pay 100-200% more than the going rate