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From: Susie.Lee@f222.n271.z1.fidonet.org (Susie Lee)
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Subject: Re: patient care during your strike
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Date: 17 Jun 91 16:03:05 GMT
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In a message to Susie Lee <06-01-91 16:13> Frank Whitney wrote:
FW> My first bed sore was when I was in intensive care
FW> following surgery.
FW> I didn't know anything about bed sores so I requested that
FW> the nurse
FW> not turn me at that moment well that moment turned into 2
FW> days and I
FW> got a bed sore that took 9 months to get rid of.

Depending on one's physical condition at the time, these can sometimes occur
even more swiftly than within two days. Many of the poorly-nourished (folk
whom we can't Force to eat better and barely take enuf in to keep their
souls on earth) or some of those with severely compromising conditions like
a diabetic coma onset that happened to my second husband right outta the
blue and had him in intensive care for two days, the first in that diabetic
coma, had developed a three-inch-wide bedsore on the back of his head from
the first tenhours of lying on his back which wasn't `uncovered' until the
lifethreatening coma was overcome. But getting back to the frail and
malnourished, they will also just-as-quickly develope these things within
just as swift a timeperiod, if not sooner yet! For some of them, just the
onset of reddened skin at a pressure point and it's almost already too late
to halt the breakdown before the delicate tissues have a chance to heal.And
so the `rule' is a MUST-reposition at LEAST every two hours, but that's
stretching it for some, and about every hour to 90 minutes is really better.

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