This wound looked worrisome. Our orthopedic was just not worried about it. He said it was just granulation tissue.
These pictures were taken 7/23, 7/27, 7/28, and 7/31. I took him into the doctor on Thursday the 23rd and Monday the 27th and the doctor said he felt like it was "within the range of normal". I finally went to get a second opinion on Thursday, the 30th. The (new- primary care, Mitev) physician had been a wound care doctor and said he was worried it was infected. He scraped all the dead tissue away and collected a culture sample to send away. We took him to a new orthopedic the next day (Nenna) who sent him straight to the hospital for admittance and performed surgery the next day to irrigate the site. At the time, he wasn't sure if he was going to have to remove the hardware or not. Thank goodness he didn't have to! He had 3 different strains of bacteria at the site that he had contracted when he was injured. Dr. Patel (the surgeon in Illinois) had warned us this was a potential threat given what the bones had been exposed to on the street.
