Saturday, September 6, 2008

Ulcers?

What's that white thingy? Any idea?

He was admitted few days ago, with history of swelling at both legs and having big "wound" at both legs, and not healing. He is bedridden and non-communicate. According to the relatives he used to crawl with his both legs and his butt support his movement, honestly I don't know how to explain (my English can be very bad sometimes.. teehee), and according to his daughter, he has not been eating for the past few days. That white thingy is actually his tendon, at the back of one of his right knee

Anyhoo the ulcer/sore which I uploaded above, is not actually build up from our care. He was admitted along with these! Guys... anything to comment? Please do.

Our usual nursing care for these is usually, turning, as in, you know, turning them to different position in every few hours (usually 2 hours). But how frequent are we doing it? Despite of the jobs pending that need to be attended, and also the shortage of staffs issues (no comment!). But at least we can do this in between our other jobs or as it should be called, nursing procedures. *grins*

Until then, I left this for you to think and discuss or even argue (I know one of these days, this issue will come up)


(The swelling actually had reduced, you can see from this picture :) )

p/s: Any social updates and activities are almost welcome :)

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