Hiatus - Follow-up Appointments

A fortnight after getting out of the RVI we returned to the Freeman to see Mrs OsteoConsultant.  

First port of call was the dressings room where the, dressings nurse was most impressed with the Pico-vac.  They couldn’t examine the wound without taking it off and to their great embarrassment they didn’t have one in stock to replace it.

“Can you come back next week and we’ll make sure we have one?”

So a week later we went back. 

They had a Pico-vac dressing and there was a long discussion about getting one put aside for his next visit.

Mrs OsteoConsultant was very pleased with progress.  

So pleased she doesn’t want to see Ferretfingers until 18^th June.

The hospital dressing’s nurses and sister were fascinated by the Pico-vac dressing.  

The sister applied it with three nurses observing, including the poor soul that discovered the infection beneath the bandages all those weeks ago. 

I tried my best not to say “The District Nurse did it such and such a way”.

Then I asked about Ferretfingers’ medication as we would soon run out of the Fluoxicillin we brought back from the RVI, and the stuff I went back in to collect the weekend after.  Mrs OsteoConsultant checked the records and emailed a prescription to the Freeman’s pharmacy.  We went down and were told it would take two hours to fill (there were a lot of people waiting) so went to have lunch.

Ferretfingers takes 4 Fluoxicillin 4 times a day, plus a Rimpamicin twice a day.   

Thankfully he no longer needs painkillers.    

The antibiotics finish on 23^rd June – when we should be in Bournemouth.

We’ll find out on 18^th June whether that will be possible.