WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS
Nurse Lani
Face the music
Face the music
On 6 October 2022, I accidentally nicked my left ring finger with the hedge trimmer. With a seemingly less serious cut the year earlier when I saved the tip of my thumb and took it to the emergency room to be reattached, the doctor laughed at me and said it would have healed fine on its down. After three days, I asked neighbor Nurse Lani for help. She thoroughly cleaned and superglued it shut.
Face the music
Face the music
Face the music
A few days later, pain was escalating beyond the ability of lidocaine to keep the injury numb. It was time for more help, and my primary care physician sent me to the emergency room.
That’s gnarly!
Face the music
Scheduled for amputation
The ER doctor on duty said, “That’s gnarly! What do you want me to do with it?” “Save it!” Was my response. He scheduled me with a surgeon for evaluation
Scheduled for amputation
Are you looking for the exit?
Scheduled for amputation
The first ER doctor sent me to a surgeon for evaluation. She told me it needed to be amputated. I asked for more time and went home.
AquaCure (AC50)
Are you looking for the exit?
Are you looking for the exit?
A friend who had visited the day after the accident and saw how much pain I was experiencing called and said she had a machine that might help. She asked if I wanted to try it. Uh huh! The first treatment of 20 minutes with Brown’s Gas produced by the AquaCure had an immediate impact. It felt like champagne bubbles of light inside my finger!
Are you looking for the exit?
Are you looking for the exit?
Are you looking for the exit?
With only 20 minutes of gas per day, my finger steadily improved. Within a few days, I knew it would heal enough to keep it.
Looks worse before it gets better
85% Improvement and getting better
Looks worse before it gets better
After about two weeks, I had my fifth visit to the surgeon. The prognosis wasn’t good. The nail wasn’t really attached, and it was almost black. The surgeon and the assistant left to schedule the operating room and said they would be back in about five minutes. I waited almost ten minutes, opened the door, saw a nurse standing at a mobile workstation, and she asked me if I was looking for the exit. Uh-huh! She pointed, and I found myself sitting in my car wondering what had just happened.
Grateful
85% Improvement and getting better
Looks worse before it gets better
From not being able to move it at all to this video was four weeks. The skin pigment was splotchy after the old skin fell off, but it worked well enough even with no feeling in the tip.
85% Improvement and getting better
85% Improvement and getting better
85% Improvement and getting better
Practice your medicine on your own dang self. The surgeon didn't believe me when I said it was getting better. The surgeon would taken my money and my finger and never thought about it again. This pic is for you <3