Tuesday, September 27, 2011

How long?

Minor injuries or not so minor injuries, how long do they take to heal?
It’s been ten days as of today and so far the coagulation strips have not fallen off my avulsion skin on my thumb injury.
Isn’t it the norm for healthy healing to take anywhere from seven to ten days?
The whole thing is getting quite old and annoying, since I have to soak it a couple of times a day and with all my other meds and shot etc. daily, I just wish it would get better already, ya know?
I guess I sound like a baby complaining; it’s not like I had a really bad cut, this is only about a little over an inch long but it is in a precarious place being on my right thumb, since I am right handed!
As a lefty I am a failure; although, it hasn’t stopped me from trying to become ambidextrous, my maternal grandma was.
You see, I was supposed to see the doctor, Hubby’s doctor who was now mine too a few days after the injury, but… it’s gotta be me… and you know it’s getting to look that way, but we received a notice in the mail a few days after I had the initial injury that he, the new doc will be closing his practice on October 8th, and he is moving out of state!
And it seems that every other day we have been calling for an appointment and his receptionist says he has been staying at the hospital to take care of those patients.
I just need a look see and Hubby just wants additional refills on his blood pressure meds until we find another doctor!
CRAZY! And of course I never mentioned that my original neurologist left a couple of years ago and so did my gynecologist too, it’s gotta be me…nah, it’s the ECOMNOMY STUPID! Sound familiar?
I live in a county where the unemployment rate is still over 11% and the foreclosure rate still is going fairly too well too. Thus with all those non positive economic barometers anyone who has to make a living logically would be questioning the reason why to stay here I suppose, huh?
Sadly, we are a community that does have a high retirement population who does need medical professionals and many are on Medicare but some too could be on Medicaid the way things are, I don’t have any way to know about that, but it is probably a lot!
So I ask you all what will happen to us, the ill and elderly? I am done moving and besides our home’s value is probably lower now too… so not worth the aggravation!
Fixed incomes mean just that, we, I suppose are much better off than many but not as good as some.
It does make sense that a doctor or any professional would look to where the grass was greener to work and even to get paid a realistic income for that work.
And so, I suppose we will all have to become better at handling our own maladies and learn the best way to do it all, hmm?
CRAZY!
I’m no doctor, not even a nurse, sure I was a Mom and then I knew when you had to go to emergency and did that real well! Of course, I took first aid courses and even took CPR for a few years, self help course from the state health department and of course certified Aquacize instructor and grant writer class, but none of that is helpful for any of this! I didn’t even know I had an avulsion of the skin until I read it on my directive on how to care for the injury and even then I had to look it up to really know!

Any ideas on coping with our lack of decent medical help locally please come on and suggest! In my comments corner or email, okay?

On that, what the heck; this is NOT FUNNY TOBI!?

Allow me to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS my thumb does hurt intermittently but it is not discolored only where the coagulation strips were applied and they are a lovely bloody black color! The rest of the thumb is not different from the rest of my pale skinned hand, although my thumb nail still had blood under it no matter how much I soak it (LADY MACBETH watch out!), but still below my inner wrist I still have a black and blue bruise from that time about a day after the original incident that it went a bit weird sensation and pop a black and blue booboo, see not a medico more like a Mommy! HA!

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