Legacy Emanuel Wound Clinic

«Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.» — John Lennon.
That thing that was bothering me on the bottom of my foot for so long went from bothersome to all consuming when the Podiatrist looked me in the eye said «cancer». In a whirlwind week and a half or so I went from happily bee-​bopping through life to being a passenger on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, careening from Doctor to Surgeon to hospital and eventually home with a gaping hole that used to be where my heal was and a massive case of depression. How could that big of a hole in me get healed?
My Oncology case worker told us about Legacy Wound Care and set us up an appointment. They were on the phone to me immediately and got me in within a few days to meet Debra, an RN who specializes in wounds like mine. I was used to Doctor’s and nurses unwrapping my bandages and watching their eyes get huge when they see my surgical area. Debra just sort of shrugged and said that she could get that closed. For the first time in a long time I felt some hope and felt the weight lift off my shoulders a little.
Within a appointment or two I was fitted with a Wound Vac, which is just like it sounds, a vacuum that allows the wound to heal in a negative pressure environment and also suck any fluids out into a tank. It is my constant companion, it’s on me ²⁴⁄₇ except for appointments twice a week to change the dressings and tank. Hopefully it will be done filling in the hole by the middle to end of April.
Cancer sucks, believe me, but sometimes these things that interrupt our ideal life bring people into your life we would not normally meet and in this case Debra is that person. How I could not really enjoy the discomfort these visits bring but look forward to them anyway is a tribute to everyone here from the front desk on back. If your ideal life takes a sudden detour under a Surgeons knife and you need healing this is your place to come get better.