Dad's Foot Infection

So this past week has been quite a set back for dad. Rachel noticed at the beginning of last week that his wound on the right foot was a little red and had some yellow stuff oozing out of it. The nurse came to the house that day and sent him to see the foot doctor. The doctor gave him antibiotics and a betadine stick to swab on it. Only two days later, it was worse.

They admitted him to the hospital on Thursday. The top part of his foot was turning red with a rash and later that night it started to develop a blister. They put him on antibiotics through an I.V.

By Friday, it was worse, so his foot doctor scheduled surgery at 9am on Saturday to open up the wound, clean it out to the bone, and see if the bones were healing. Here's how his foot looked Friday night before surgery.

They also called an infectious specialist doctor who took cultures of the foot. The infectious disease doctor took cultures around the wound before surgery. The foot doctor took cultures inside the tissue and around the bone. So they basically have a lot of cultures now that they're waiting to see the outcome. In the mean time, his blister was drained & all the skin around it has turned nasty black. It looks gross. They also put a drain tube in the wound, which came out late the next day.

The good news is that the foot doctor said all his tissue & bone under the skin looked healthy & pink. So what is this nasty black stuff spreading around his toes and killing his skin?? I really hope they figure it out soon so that he can start healing again. On Sunday morning his foot looked like this. The toes are turning black.