toe update (meds, Day 5)

Wow. The green color may or may not be fading, but there's real healing going on with the two wounds (one kind of black and scabbed over, the other kind of gray and translucent). Both wounds still seep, though, based on what I see whenever I peel back the bandages. I wonder what's going to happen when I go walking on these wounds tomorrow. Will I undo the healing? I mean, I've walked for weeks on wounds like this before, so it's not a huge deal if so, and I can use the rest of the year to heal.

Alas, I am now out of antibiotics. Today was the last day for my pills from the hospital. This doesn't mean I'm helpless: I could visit my local clinic next week and get more antibiotics, and that ought to help continue the healing. But at the same time, it would throw off the hospital's strategy, which is to see whether the antibiotics have taken the healing in the right direction (i.e., whether the antibiotics were/are appropriate for the infection). I'm not supposed to visit the hospital for another five days, which is plenty of time for the infection to return. Whatever the cause of the infection is, it must be somewhere inside my apartment since, aside from walking, I don't really leave my place for many reasons. If it really is Pseudomonas, references suggest that Pseudomonas mostly tends to be waterborne. The AI god says:

Pseudomonas is a waterborne bacterium that can be found in soil, water, and moist environments, including drinking-water systems and plumbing. It is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause infections, especially in people with weakened immune systems, and it can spread through contaminated water in sources like pools, showers, and even taps and filters.

It makes me nervous to think the bacterium might have come via my shower. I should see about disinfecting my shower's head and hose, not to mention my bathroom's floor and possibly my studio apartment's regular floor even though it's not moist. I also need to make sure never to shower with a bandage on my toe: if I forget to change the bandage, it could ironically become a carrier of Pseudomonas.

Meanwhile, I give my foot occasional wipe-downs with alcohol swabs, and I do the occasional foot-soak, though not as much since my hospital visit.

Meanwhile, the toe's healing seems to be on the right trajectory.