red-oak wrote:

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Some one needs to get it together and look after if for him its just been to long no excuse for a guy have to go through that in this day and age

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Good luck with the wound specialist tomorrow Chuck. Hope everything goes well.
TMJ

Hope you got some good advice from the doctor !!!

Atomsplitter wrote:

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You know Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone both cauterized wounds with gun powder!

www.youtube.com/watch

Rambo was a bit of a pussy about the whole thing in my opinion, I'm sure you would do better!

Stay strong, stay positive, you'll get through this! Laughter is the best medicine!

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          and all this time I thought honey and maggots were the best medicine

          who knew it was laughter !!!!! 

slight update on the wound.. The specialist was here on Tuesday and they did an ultra sound on my legs, and blood presure test on my leg.. The good news is they say my legs have good cirulation and the wound shold be healing. they say my old body is in good shape and should be capable of healing.. They wrapped a special membrane material that they use for burn and gunshot wounds. I have to leave it on for i week and they will be back to remove and examine the wound again to see if we are getting some improvement.. I can't tell if it is working.. All I know at this point is the fking pain is affecting my warm, charming personality.. After so long putting up with this .. I am going nuty. so I sure hope this will work.. 

Then yesterday I had to go into the hospital for some throat sugery. I had a tumor in my throat that they removed yesterday and they say they got it all so there should be no problem in the future. It's a little sore . kind like a skeeter bite compared to my leg..I feel like an old field car getting restored.. I hope another month or 6 weeks and all this is behind me.. I have more than enough to do right now just looking after Diane.. Working on building that 50 pickup for my Son.. and my coupe needs a weeks work of spring refreshing for summer  cruising.. 

jeezus chuck, if it don't rain then it seems to be pouring buddy. i am actually surprised they went ahead with the throat when you already have a wound not healing properly. humph!
grumpy is on the money with, "the squeaky wheel gets the grease ", chuck. i went through a bad f/up after my wife passed, about 13-14yrs ago, when i smashed a hip and spent about 6 months in the hospital on and off for a year with a bone infection. i can't remember how many fruit baskets and flower arrangements i bought for the nursing stations apologizing for my xxx rants about the pain i was in but they caught on eventually. don't be shy bud.
good luck buddy.

Sorry I have absent from the board for a spell , I do check in a couple times a day.. just to make sure there is no trouble.. I had several issues of my own that has kept me busy.. Besides my never ending leg wound. It is constantly wearing me down with pain on a scale of 1 to 10 my pain most of the time is a steady 50..and it just eats up my warm charming personality.. It never stops hurting for months now.. They are saying I should have it almost healed by April 22.. is the last date for my treatment in their book..

Then I had a tumor in my throat that I had to get out. They say they got it all and there should not  be any issue.. The pain from that is like a skeeter bite compared to my leg.. 

Then last night just after I got nicely  to sleep my wife wakes up to tell the toilet is overflowing..Holy crap the septic tank was plugged with a root in the line between the house and the tank.. So I worked my butt off last till nearly 3 am to get most of it cleaned up,  It backed up into the shower, I had to fill 3 tote boxes with stinking sewer water.. so the pump would just keep recycling and run all night.. what a friggen mess. Then when I went to check the rest of the basement it was running out the ceiling so it had soaked through around the laminate flooring and into the basement.. The rug is soaked and the under pad is a brownish color from sewer water from the septic tan .. I worked my butt off trying get my old girl to understand she could not use the toilet .. My whole last 20 hrs has been a trip to hell and back.. 

The good news is the septic pumper was here around 9 and we got the pooper working right  again, and them my insurance sent an adjuster and they said yes your covered for $25,000 gs.. That was nice to hear.. Usually is Sorry we don't cover that.. But he was great He had the guy they use for restoration of fire and flood damage.. He has called me and will here in the morning to get at it.. So I have the dirty stuff done so we can function with a bathroom and water, and they will take care of the basement damage.. It has been one thing after another for my this last little bit.. We will just working our through these until we lick them all.. Just keeps me plenty busy looking after a woman who does not understand what's going on around her,, and cooking and taking care of chit.. I will be glad to see some warm weather so I cam open some windows and I would like to get more time on my Sons truck I am trying to build.. I been getting my ass kicked pretty good this year.. But I will get through it.. It has stolen a lot time I usually have to spend here on the board.. I appreciate what a great group of guys we have here.. The board is always clean with no trouble.. I still get about 20 a day trying to get in here to make trouble but the board does have a good spammer blocking program so It has blocked several hundred from all those bad country's.. Thanks guys for keeping it green and friendly.. You are a great group.. 

A little update on my leg. I can't tell you just how painful this is.. I have Tylenol 3.. and percocets and they do not even touch the pain.. I have not slept through the  night for  for months.. I have to sleep on my back on the couch with that leg on the floor to slow the circulation to ease off the pain.. I have never endured pain like this.. I swear if I had a gun here I would blow my head off at times. the pain gets so bad.. And then I have Diane to look after and cook and wash.. the normal house work that never friggen ends..I am not a cook.. I have seen about 20 different medical people but nobody seems to able to get this under control.. I have to go in on Thursday for a bone scan and they tell it will three hours for that procedure and I am waiting now for a wound specialist to call. After I have the bone scan if I have not heard from the specialist I am going to London to emergency and tell them They are incapable of dealing with this injury in St.Marys or Straford.. all they ever do is clean the wound and put clean dressing on very other day.. Usually by 2am in the morning I am sitting here with a pair of scissors cutting all the dressing off because of the pain.. There has been more than I night I can tell that I wanted to just go get in the car and take a transport on head first.. The f-ing pain is unbearable most time.. and it sure has taken a toll on my warm charming personality.. I feel like sawing the barrel off my 22 rifle and bringing it with me to the Drs.. so I can show him what unbearable pain is.. lol...These are pictures I took this morning as  where it is located I can't see it with out pictures.. They had it wrapped with a zinc coated wrap.. but again I could not stand the pain so after about 4 to 5 hrs I have to cut it off because of the pain..I am sorry I have not been able to here to much right now looking after the house and Diane and dealing with this wound.. I just had a tumor out that I had in my throat and it;s went fine no pain to speak of .. More like a skeeter bite compared to my leg.. I feel bad that I don't get as much time here right now.. I always check in a couple times every day in case anybody has a problem or some maintenance needs doing and to block all the spam we have been having the last couple months.. I am blocking about 20 spammers per day trying to get into the forum . Thanks for the support .. God I hope this under control soon.. Summer is not far and with 5 acres I have lots of out side clean up and yard work to get done.. So I sure they get this fixed soon.. I am about at the end of my tolerance right now.. I am quick to get Po'ed and short on humor right now..If any body needs anything.. just PM me or call me I can and I am willing and able to make any corrections or chages or help anybody with any board issues.. I hope to have this fixed or under control soon.. so I can back to life... Thanks for your concern and patience..

Every time they try to put this wrap on I can only stand it for about 6 hours and I can't take that pain anymore so I have to cut it off.. If anything touches it even my sock or pant leg of my pants.. The pain goes from a solid 10 to 100 in in a mili second.. I have never had pain like this thing.. 

I am still in excruciating pain guys .. I am trying to get in here every day to keep it clean and trouble free.. Hopefully I will get past this bad pain soon. They have me on morphine now and it's still not managing my pain.. I have been close to shooting myself with the pain . I haven't slept for a month anymore than a couple hrs at a time and Still be alert enough to be looking out and cooking for Diane.. These pics are from last night.. I am not sure if it's getting better or worse.. but the pain is insane..I never had pain like this in my life.. hang on .. I hope I will alive and normal soon.. it's has been 4 months with this now.. I finally got to see a surgeon last week and I am hoping for a follow up next week.. Who would have ever thunk a cut could turn into this 

I am thinking like that.. I have never been in so much pain.. This pain has been making me crazy.. night after night, after night.. Going on four months now.. I have tylenol 3s.. they do nothing, then I had percosets , they do nothing. Now hydro morphine 2mg.. been on these for three days nothing  for the pain non of these have helped me with this pain and my leg keeps getting worse. The pain keeps getting more and more intense until the front end of a transport is looking good some nights.. I seem to have the worst pain at night.. I have sat up many nights with my head in my hand in so much pain I wish I could just friggen die.. The pain is intolerable.. I have been to emergency on three separate  nights, Seen 4 or 5 Drs with this new stupid system we have you end up in some clinic. This pain has been making it hard to know the difference between insanity and reality some nights at 3 in the morning when your half crazy with PainI can't tell day from night.  I go again Monday for nothing.. I hope to see a specialist next week.. I have seen him once and my foot is so swollen he thought he should put it in wrap to get the swelling down.. That lasted till about 1 am and I had to cut it off. I can't stand the pain.. They have to get this pain under control before they can wrap it.. my foot is twice the size of normal.. The pain has been merciless for a month now.. Thats why I have been unable to be on here guys.. With Diane and trying to care for her. I have some some days I am near at the end of what I can take anymore.. Minutes feel hours and hours feel like days and the nights are indescribable pain..and feel like weeks.. I am sure hoping for a break soon.. It feels similar to somebody holding a blow torch to my leg and I am unable to get my leg away from it.. Something has to give soon.. I feel like jumping off the barn roof.. It has been a long grind.. of pain like I never felt before..  

I,m with 33 Chuck. The redness and swell ing seems to be getting worse and the pain isn't easing off any. You need immediate help with that leg at a real hospital. our health system sucks with what we have to go through to see a specialist. If it was me I would pick a good hospital and camp out and raise hell till they did something. 

33 guy wrote:

Chuck 

That looks absolutely terrible .I hate to tell people what to do .

But I think you need to get Diane up to your daughters place and get to a major hospital in London or Toronto and get yourself looked after, before you are unable to look after her yourself .You need immediate attention to that leg before you find yourself having it removed .

Chuck make a decision to do it and do it soon 

Joe Mac