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Wound Care Center
Aug. 28th, 2015 01:19 amWhat an awful experience! I will try to take the high road for a change, and say that maybe the doctor I saw is really a good person, kind to his family, a good boss to the office nurses, etc. Perhaps the only thing he lacks is effective patient interaction skills, despite his telling me, at FOUR DIFFERENT TIMES, that he's been doing this work for 15 years.
1. His insistence that he's seen my case history "at least 60-70 times per week for the fifteen years I've been doing this" seems slightly unrealistic- because there are WAY more kinds of wounds than what I brought in.
2. He kept repeating himself over and over, while he stared at me, as if he was expecting me to give some response that I did not understand. I mean, he never prompted me about anything, and I had no idea what he was waiting for.
3. It also did not help my impression of him that he told me repeatedly, emphatically, and in great detail that the pain I felt at times with the wound was physically not possible, never would happen, clearly just nerves oversensitive, absolutely nothing whatsoever could ever be done to change it, with a heavy implication that I should just stop whining.
4. And I have no idea why he was so bent out of shape over the fact that I did not want to take a diuretic, because my incontinence is bad enough without it (and I already have problems with muscle cramps from mild dehydration at times). But, he told me more than once that my wound would never heal because of my refusal.
5. However, the edema has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on how I ended up with the wound, and having the varicose veins ablated would have no impact on the peripheral artery condition that was the actual cause of the wound. I am proud of myself for refraining from asking him to explain this conundrum.
So they put my lower leg into a "boot" (heavy wrap from toes to just below knee of cast padding covered by elastic bandage for extreme compression), told me to try to endure it, but if I couldn't take it by tomorrow morning to call them, and remember that the pain was just oversensitive nerves, and hopefully I would be able to stick with it until I go back to see the nurse Monday to get it off and rewrapped tighter after it has done its work for three days. Then I see the horrible doctor again on Thursday. He's already told me that it will take MONTHS of wearing the boot nonstop in order to possibly heal the sore, but remember, it probably WON'T WORK because I refuse to take the diuretic.
I can tell you this- the pressure of the compression wrap on the sore is really miserable, but it's nothing compared to the shifting of the wrap over the sore as I move. And getting up the three steps from the ground into the house was insanely horrible. SO GLAD IT'S NOT REAL PAIN, RIGHT?
As an added bonus, he pretty much called my family practitioner, AND the venous specialist I saw, incompetent boobs who were too stupid to correctly diagnose anything.
1. His insistence that he's seen my case history "at least 60-70 times per week for the fifteen years I've been doing this" seems slightly unrealistic- because there are WAY more kinds of wounds than what I brought in.
2. He kept repeating himself over and over, while he stared at me, as if he was expecting me to give some response that I did not understand. I mean, he never prompted me about anything, and I had no idea what he was waiting for.
3. It also did not help my impression of him that he told me repeatedly, emphatically, and in great detail that the pain I felt at times with the wound was physically not possible, never would happen, clearly just nerves oversensitive, absolutely nothing whatsoever could ever be done to change it, with a heavy implication that I should just stop whining.
4. And I have no idea why he was so bent out of shape over the fact that I did not want to take a diuretic, because my incontinence is bad enough without it (and I already have problems with muscle cramps from mild dehydration at times). But, he told me more than once that my wound would never heal because of my refusal.
5. However, the edema has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on how I ended up with the wound, and having the varicose veins ablated would have no impact on the peripheral artery condition that was the actual cause of the wound. I am proud of myself for refraining from asking him to explain this conundrum.
So they put my lower leg into a "boot" (heavy wrap from toes to just below knee of cast padding covered by elastic bandage for extreme compression), told me to try to endure it, but if I couldn't take it by tomorrow morning to call them, and remember that the pain was just oversensitive nerves, and hopefully I would be able to stick with it until I go back to see the nurse Monday to get it off and rewrapped tighter after it has done its work for three days. Then I see the horrible doctor again on Thursday. He's already told me that it will take MONTHS of wearing the boot nonstop in order to possibly heal the sore, but remember, it probably WON'T WORK because I refuse to take the diuretic.
I can tell you this- the pressure of the compression wrap on the sore is really miserable, but it's nothing compared to the shifting of the wrap over the sore as I move. And getting up the three steps from the ground into the house was insanely horrible. SO GLAD IT'S NOT REAL PAIN, RIGHT?
As an added bonus, he pretty much called my family practitioner, AND the venous specialist I saw, incompetent boobs who were too stupid to correctly diagnose anything.
