1: Aleve retards wound healing in a major way.
2: Having a uric acid level of 11.4 is considered alarming.
3: An improperly dressed wound hurts worse than not having it dressed at all.
4: Compression therapy works, but only if you can maintain it.
5: It's damnably hard to wrap your own leg under the best of circumstances.
6: It's impossible if you're overweight.
7: Apparently, your doctor has to exhaust conservative measures before they can hospitalize you, when you're on Medicaid.
8: A full course of antibiotics may not be enough to kill a persistent infection.
9: Medicaid will not refill a prescription within one month, regardless of whether it's an antibiotic necessary for wound treatment and regardless of whether it's one that was originally supposed to have been given as a much, MUCH larger package.
10: Medicaid DOES cover bandage materials. At least, certain versions of it do.
11: In-home care nurses are very, very candid.