Greg's Hand (this is for you Jim)

WARNING
THIS POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES UNSUITABLE FOR SMALL CHILDREN, WEAK STOMACHED ADULTS AND VEGETARIAN VAMPIRES
IF YOU HAVE A HISTORY OF FEELING ILL AT THE SIGHT OF EITHER BLOOD OR BLOODSUCKING PARASITES OR BOTH AT THE SAME TIME, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND VIEWING ANY FURTHER. IF YOU'RE STRANGE LIKE ME AND THINK BLOOD, GUTS, GORE AND ROADKILL ARE FASCINATING...READ ON!

As I mentioned in my last post (approx. 10 minutes ago) Greg's injury proved to be one of multiple complications, one of which included a broken finger that refused to support the growth of new skin resulting in exposure of the titanium hardware holding said broken finger in place.Well, apparently this was not a good thing. So, surgery was scheduled, and a skin flap surgery was performed. Just a little info so that the next part of my story makes sense; skin flap surgery is where skin is transplanted from a donor site (in this case Greg's forearm) and stays attached to it's own fat, blood vessels and occasionally an artery (as happened in Greg's surgery). Fortunately the artery that was transplanted worked wonderfully pumping lots of nice fresh healthy blood into Greg's skin. Unfortunately the blood vessels attached to the skin were damaged meaning that nice fresh healthy blood had nowhere to go. Enter bloodsucking parasites. The only chance of saving the skin was 10 days of 24 hour a day Leech Therapy. It was rather disgusting and incredibly exhausting. My poor husband hardly got any sleep in those ten days. I mean, would you sleep if you knew those little buggers might detach at any moment and wander off? Are you sick yet? And can you believe that they are actually still using Leechs? As weird as it was, and as miserable as my poor Greg was during the therapy, it actually worked and his skin is recovering splendidly! I apologize if the pictures or the details made anyone queasy, but I've had a lot of requests for pictures of the Leechs so, there they are. Until next time...