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The Wound Clinic and Home Care Centre (403) 955-6966
If you go up to the 4th floor of our wonderful Sheldon Chumir Health Centre, you will find the Wound Clinic, for which you will need an appointment. You will need to be referred by a doctor to have an appointment for this Clinic.
This clinic is primarily for ulcerations and diseases of the legs. More people than you know suffer from such conditions as edema, cellulitis, skin infections and need special attention. I managed to pick up such an infection while hospitalized last spring, and have a "wound" on one leg that just won't go away!
Usually what is done is your condition is assessed by a nurse, then a doctor will come in and the two of them take pictures of the leg, give you all the information you could possibly want and more, use expensive ointments (such as silver) on your wound, dress it, compress it, and send you on your way.
But that's not the end of it - no. This is where Home Care steps in and you have a nurse come to your home (courtesy of The Wound Clinic and Alberta Health) 2 or 3 times a week at your mutual convenience. The nurse continues with your care and dressings in the comfort of your living room, takes more pictures, writes up an assessment and generally keeps track of you. If they feel you need IV antibiotics, off you go to the hospital. More often though, is a recommendation to your GP for a course of oral antibiotics.
I have a wonderful nurse, Celine, but this past month we have not been able to get together, so I went back to the Wound Clinic yesterday for an assessment, more dressings and to have more questions answered. My appointment was for 13:00 and I think it was 13:03 when I was brought into the Clinic and led to a private cubicle. These people value your (and their) time; I have never had to wait.
Why do they do this? Obviously there is a need for this kind of treatment, but looking through some reading material they gave me, they are trying to prevent people from having Deep Vein Thrombosis (blood clots in your legs such as people who fly for long periods of time are in danger of getting), Chronic Venous Insufficiency which is caused by poor blood flow from your heart - a condition that many sedentary people contract (so watch out, couch potatoes!). The blood slowly leaks out of your veins and into the skin on the lower part of your legs. (the pictures are really gross!) "There is NO CURE for venous insufficiency, but it can be MANAGED" according to the posters that hang in the clinic.
So there you have it. The mysterious fourth floor of the Sheldon Chumir Health Centre unveiled.
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