My Journey to My Amputation

here are photos from my surgery,  my amputation, my new leg,  these photos are my leg when it was good and when I thought it was bad. The Dr's and the Nurses, all said even though it looked like 
it was opening up,  I was told this is normal and there was no infection,  :D  so dont panic when 
things just dont look quite right.  Dont get me wrong, notify your doctor or nurse, whoever is coming
to the house to help you.  They absolutely need to know. You need to take care of it, clean it and do 
what the Dr says. So many people do not listen to the DR then wonder why it isnt healing or why 
things arent going as they should.   


                                                     This photo has a sock on called a stump 
                                                     shrinker. it will help the stump to go from 
                                                    what you see below when it is larger to much
                                                     smaller.

these next few photos are before the stump

shrinker. they will not place the stump shrinker

on until your staples are out and your leg is 

healed. No bleeding, no open wounds.

the next three are the times when I thought everything

was going bad on me. The DRs were not worried and 

told me all was ok. To me I thought my leg looked 

like it was getting infected. Thankfully the DRs said

no infection and it was healing nicely.  :D 

yeahhhhhhhh

this is my arm, I have had enough surgeries and needles 

takeing blood that I know, when it bruises it is not 

because the nurse or drs did anything wrong

the bruising comes from blood leaking from the vein

under the skin.  In this case they had to take out the 

needle because the fluid was filling up under my arm. 

It became really puffy and that looked bad. :D  dont be

afraid to show the drs, the nurses and let them know

any thing you are not sure of,  it is much better to be 

safe than sorry.