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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  This is always such a worry after Alex' type infection. I believe I would first see an infectious disease specialist - say the head of the Infectious Disease Department of your nearest big city's best hospital and let him send you to the wound care specialist he most trusts, if one is necessary. I thought most wound care specialists were usually used for chronic, very long-term infections of diabetics, osteomyelitis, etc. I'd at least get an infectious disease consult just to be on the safe side. |
I have a friend who is a wound care nurse. She is who I took Alex to see last night to make sure I wasn't over reacting. She said if I can get a referral from our PCP, she can get us in to the wound care doctor. She said the appointments are a month out but she would talk to the doctor and see if they would work him in. She thinks they should have done a bone scan on him when he was in the hospital. She felt like a wound care doctor would be good to go to because she said they are very proactive. I am honestly at my wits end on this. I am going to try to get in to see the PCP (not going to the surgeon) and see who he thinks will see Alex.
