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A patient's wound journey
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A patient's wound journey

What is it like to have a chronic leg ulcer? How does the wound impact on quality of life? What aspects of a clinician's communication matters to a patient's engagement and participation in their care?

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I'll just pop the back of the bed up for a bit. So John, tell me how your wound began, with initially we began with a surgical procedure. That's correct, yes, and the specialist, I went back to see him probably twice or three times and on the second week he took the bandage off and told me to put Becadine on it and it'll dry out but unfortunately it didn't. You I think this is our last visit. We still want you to moisturise, and you can moisturise right over, and when you've got long pants on and you're not doing anything that could cause trauma, you could be leaving uncovered at that point, but if you were in short pants or you're doing things, like you said, you know, there's a chance of it getting bumped or not, then I would still have just a protective layer there. That's 15 weeks out of your life of having a wound. Yeah. Has that impacted on your day-to-day life? Well, not being able to... I wanted to go away to see my daughter, but I had to hold back on that until everything got to be okay. That's about the rest of it. I haven't been getting in the garden or anything like that because I didn't want to cause any trauma or anything like that. I've held back on a lot of things I should have been doing around the house and doing otherwise, but apart from that it's not much trouble. You

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