Stella had her second burn treatment this morning; the radiation therapist cleaned and debrided the area of more dead tissue. As with the first burn care appointment, anesthesia was not used. The radiation therapist said the burn is healing nicely; it has also turned from red to pink. Instead of the SSD cream we are to apply Neosporin 2-3 times a day. Oh boy, she's going to make everything in the house greasy!
We were told to start weaning Stella off of the oral pain meds. We will give them to her just once day for the next few days and then discontinue. This evening we applied the Neosporin and was surprised that Stella did not try to run away; she did not appear to have any pain. :)
The radiation therapist stated that Stella's burn care is complete. We are to make an appointment with the Oncologist in 2-3 weeks for a check-up and routine blood tests. As stated in a previous post, the blood tests are just a precaution because Stella had 20 rounds of anesthesia this past month.
The report for today states: "We clipped the hair from the radiation treatment site and cleaned the area with dilute Nolvasan. Stella's elbow is healing great! You may start to wean Stella off of the Gabapentin and Tramadol".
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