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Carrying On
29 April 2021
Tuesday Joyce had a debriding session at the Plastic Surgery Clinic with Dr. Tong who had canceled the previous week's two sessions. In just a couple of weeks, the yellow tissue had grown back over half the wound, so she had some work to do.
While Joyce was "numbing up" from a Lidocaine shot, Dr. Tong peeked her head out into the waiting room. "I haven't seen you in a while," she greeted me. She said she had been hoping to do debridements once a month but it looks like every other week would be better, if that's OK.
That's OK.
She went to work and, almost an hour later, we went home. But it wasn't until the next day that I got a chance to see what she'd done. And she cleared out a good deal of the yellow tissue from the outside edge of the wound.
The inside edge and the muscle have stayed pretty clean but the outside edge and top have not. The outside edge now looks like the inside edge, so I'm hoping the yellow won't reestablish itself.
The top needs a bit more work, though.
When Salwa the LVN saw the wound this morning she noted the sides are closing in. And indeed the skin, which looks raw along the edges now, is growing in. The pit of the wound isn't any shallower but the sides are filling in.
Meanwhile the money tree from the Yee family in Texas that you can see in the photo of her hospital room has been growing almost unnoticed in our living room window.
It's been an inspiration. As the money tree grows, Joyce's wound closes. More than we realize.