Useful and Up to Date Advice on Skin Breakdown

Hey all I'm going to give you an update on my original post. So here we go, I'm home now but getting here was another story. I ended up having to have three surgeries, one was to get skin and bone cultures, number two was to have a colostomy done, and lastly the plastic surgery to to close the wound. In total I had what amounted to somewhere around 10 hours of surgery. Add to that 9 weeks of high powered antibiotics to wipe out an UTI, and in the wound they found MRSA  and ecoli which had also gotten into the bone. It turns out that's what was causing me to deal with the septic episodes I went through. I was on a special bed (clinatron) for nearly three months and could only lay on my back and left side. In order to eat I could only sit up at a 30 degree angle. I was placed on a high protein diet to aid with the healing and to keep me moving my body I did get both PT and OT. They said you can lose 20% of muscle just laying around doing nothing. I had to leave the hospital and go to a facility that could take care of my needs but even at that I could only be there so long so they moved me to a nursing home to finish up the antibiotics. I won't pull any punches here because the place was a nightmare plain and simple. Way under staffed, terrible food, and the list could go on but that probably fits into another forum thread. But one thing I learned real fast was to make sure you're getting any meds that you've been taking long before any hospital stay. Mine were so screwed up that I started having issues that were downright scary, thank the heavens that my sister is an RN and she went off big time calling the surgeon explaining what was going on. Since I  have an alternating air mattress at home that was just as good as the one they had. I got home on December 22nd and had visiting nurses coming in along with my regular aides. Now the incision has healed and I'm going through what the surgeon refers to as sitting protocols. I'm able to get up and in my chair now for a little over an hour three times a day. I have to use my ceiling lift for now since the slide-board would/could put unwanted pressure on the incision. It's been a long rough road back with a little ways to go yet and I sure don't want to go through this again. Sure I might be a little paranoid but following the doctors sitting protocol I'll be getting back to normal sooner than later.