How Kyle Lost His Piggy (And It Didn't Come Home Again)

Kyle likes us to get the maximum amount we have to pay for medical bills out of the way right at the first of the year. Last year he spent the first week of the year in the hospital. He out did himself this year. The night before Thanksgiving Kyle and I were cleaning my parents laundry room and pantry and I knocked a big can of pumpkin off of a table onto his bare foot. It cut open the 2 smallest toes and bruised it. On Monday when we went into Dr. Heninger they did an x-ray to make sure it wasn't broken. On Thursday, December 13th Kyle's toe appeared to be mostly healed. Friday night when he changed the bandages the sore was open and didn't look very good. Saturday it was so full of infection it broke open a place at the bottom of the toe to drain. We went into the ER at the Cache Valley Specialty Hospital. He ended up being admitted and started on IV antibiotics immediately.

By Sunday evening when Dr. Heninger got back in town the whole toe was basically one large wound and infection was continuously pouring out of it. It was decided that as soon as they could arrange it he would need to take Kyle into surgery and remove the dead tissue, which would most likely involve removing his toe. 

Kyle was very resistant to the idea. I wasn't sure he was going to sign the consent form right up until they took him into surgery. Even all these weeks later he still feels something should have been able to be done to save it. It's been a month and he hasn't looked at it yet. They removed the toe and a little of the tissue surrounding it.

On Wednesday when Kyle was released from the hospital I took him straight to the clinic and they put him in the hyperbaric chamber for treatment. He has been going there for 2 hours every weekday since then.  Since the surgery he has developed sores on his left foot that he is now receiving the treatment for and the incision from the surgery has healed. He wears an orthopedic boot on his left foot. Hopefully by the end of next week we can get everything healed and him back home in Salt Lake with me.

I have day by day pictures of the wound progression, but trust me when I say you don't want to see them.