Attempted recap:
Originally published at . You can comment here or there.
If you hadn’t been watching - yes, I am out of the rehab place and have been since the 8th of December, and taking every-weekday Hyperbaric Oxygen treatments at Edward Hospital’s Wound Center, which involves me being sealed up in a big plastic tube for two hours with 100% oxygen at 2.5 time normal atmospheric pressure. Two side effects from that are that my eyes have gotten temporarily nearsighted, and that my energy levels the rest of the time are pretty low; I’m either horribly groggy or sleeping, which friends have noted has been my body’s way in the past for dealing with healing from major operations and the like. The treatments have been working to heal up the massive wound in my foot caused by malpractice during the rehab period that ripped open a large incision, and the 10 cm by 5 cm gash is now around 3 cm by 1 cm and rapidly getting shallower and filling in on the sides and beneath. The docs are setting things up (since this has been working so well) to extend my treatments (which were supposed to end this week) for 2-3 more weeks to get the whole thing healed over for good. Since I’m been having problems of this sort that have wrecked me up for the last 5 years, I’m more than willing to let them do that, but I really hate being so exhausted.
(This is a kind of recap because I’ve been getting a lot of confused comments privately as to what’s been going on medically with me, so I decided to give the condensed version.)
Recently, for several reasons, my morale levels had gone way down and my stress levels had gone up - I had lost a lot of hope regarding the healing and cure process, amongst other things. Can’t really go into a lot of the fine details on the rest of it. Having to go back to work - and reassembling my scattered stuff on work - has been a real challenge, as has trying to do a full work week on top of everything else while trying to stay alert and productive. Had I my druthers, I’d have not gone back to work until after the exhaustion went away, but I don’t have that luxury.