(Please refer to our previous report on this patient entitled, *Diabetic faces amputation due to No Care Naphcare*)
From the patient herself. “The week before I was admitted to the hospital, I called for an ICS due to the severe pain in my foot. I have subsequently found out that the culture of my infection taken that day, was never sent to the lab. This last Friday I was finally taken to Complex x-ray to scan my foot. Two days later Nurse Madrid told me I had an infection to the bone.
I was taken to the hospital where a Podiatrist did an MRI and confirmed the diagnosis….. the toe had to be amputated. After surgery, the doctor said he’d gotten all the infection in the bone. He was careful to admonish me to not take off the bandage, and that he would do that himself in his clinic next week.
I was returned to IPC briefly to have my vitals done, get my antibiotics, and T3 for pain. They wanted to keep me in IPC but I begged them to let me go back to the bay. They almost didn’t give me a wheelchair chrono because of the ” chronic shortage” of wheelchairs.
I was already in the process of a medical grievance regarding this, but now I’m going to file another one under Mental Health for my mental anguish. I didn’t have to lose a part of me……this could all have been avoided if I’d had basic health care.