Heal

Left Foot Heal Blister

(Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy)

September 24/2023

For the past five months, I've had a bed sore on my left heal. Four weeks
ago my foot nurse saw it, and asked why nothing was being done about it.
After I mentioned this to the hospital staff, they started putting iodine
strips and bandages on it. To this date, it is still healing and needs to
be re-dressed every few days.

Now that I am out of the hospital, I had to go down to Home Health Care to
have the heal re-dressed. This will repeat every two days until it gets better.

The hospital gave me iodosorb to put on it.

December 16/2023

Wound on my heal is almost gone.

February 21/2024

Noticed this on my heal last night.

February 23/2024

Abbotsford Hospital wound care clinic; the foot is healing
nicely, and they want to see me in two months. They looked
at my heal and say it is a pressure wound, probably from the
offloading shoe. I now have to find a podiatrist to follow up
with on both issues.

Home Health Care.

February 26/2024

Home Health Care.

March 1/2024

My heal.

Aurora Foot & Ankle Clinic; podiatrist. My surgeon told me to see
a podiatrist. For $140, the podiatrist advised that the offloading shoe
is probably doing me no good and to wear my regular shoe, then said
I need to see a pedorthist.

Podiatrist: A doctor that specializes in treating foot and ankle problems.
Pedorthist: A footwear specialist that creates or modifies shoes, socks, and orthotics that aid in management and recovery from various foot problems.

When I got home I tried to put my largest fitting shoe on, and it
didn't fit due to the VAC and bandsging on my heal.

March 7/2024

Paris everyBODY; pedorthist. He replaced the liner in my offloading
shoe with one with more cushion, and tapered the back of the heal
down to offload that area. I was happy with that.

March 8/2024