We made a little progress today on the open incision situation (that has not healed), thankfully!
On Monday, I spent several hours calling plastic surgeon offices in St. Louis trying to find a doctor that would do skin grafting on a wound on the foot. I tried several referrals from my St. Louis orthopedic surgeon and was unable to locate anyone that was willing to see me/or operate. All the plastic surgeons in St. Louis seem to be interested in cosmetic surgery ($$) and not repairing wounds.
I e-mailed the Chicago surgeon and informed her that it didn’t look like that skin grafting was going to be happening in St. Louis. She e-mailed me back two names of Chicago plastic surgeons this morning. I called them and was able to get an appointment at 3:00pm on Friday afternoon (May 25th) in Evanston, IL (suburb of Chicago). If surgery is necessary (which we think it is), the initial plan is to have the skin grafting done on Tuesday, May 29th in Evanston, IL. My orthopedic surgeon in Chicago is going to talk to the plastic surgeon before my appointment on Friday afternoon.
Friday, May 25th
10:30 – Meet with Orthopedic Surgeon – toe pin removal
3:00 – Meet with Plastic Surgeon – incision consultation
– decide about skin grafting/vacuum implanted
Tuesday, May 29th – possible skin grafting surgery – in Chicago
I am extremely thankful that I was able to get an appointment with the “plastic guy” on the same afternoon, especially right before a holiday weekend. We will not know until after the afternoon appt., as to whether or not surgery will happen on Tuesday. Return plans to St. Louis are undecided, depending on what we learn on Friday afternoon.
Thank you for earnestly praying the past few days ….. I didn’t think there was any chance of this coming together yesterday and things came together for an initial appointment nicely today. God continues to be good and He has it all under control, even when things feel “out of control.” Keep praying that if we need to schedule the skin grafting surgery for Tuesday, that details for this will happen easily.
Looking forward to having pins out on Friday and hopefully getting the incision permanently fixed soon ….
je
1 comment:
Hey! It's 10:45, and I'm praying for you while you're getting your pins out! Pretty nifty, huh, praying at the PRECISE TIME of your procedure! Hmmmmm! What a God-cidince! Hope all goes well w/ you meeting, too! We took PawPaw to the zoo yesterday w/ the boys and AuntTonya and pushed PawPaw around all day in a wheelchair. I don't think I've yet recovered! You know who should have leopard print scooters? THE ZOO! If there is ever one to be found, it would be there! I did look (b/c they had motorized scooters AND wheelchairs) while I was there (always lookin' out for ya'), and they were all boring and gray. No fun! Keep us posted of the foot details! Jobacks out!
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