Susan’s impending lower-leg amputation has been averted!

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We recently received the following email from Dotty, our nurse in Nairobi:

Hello friends,

I hope you are all well. I would like to draw your attention to a case that we have dealt with before. The case was not pursued further after the medical records and X-rays went missing. Dirk knows the details.
In any case, all is not lost: she has turned up again. Susan Okal is 33 years old and a single mother of three children.

Susan has had this chronic wound on the front of her left lower leg (below the knee) for more than three years. She is in pain and, from time to time, pus drains from the wound. The affected leg appears significantly thinner than the other. As a result of the imbalance, she has already fallen; she does not have a walking aid.
Her medical history reveals no evidence of a previous fracture. At the last examination, a dry wound measuring 12 cm was described.
X-ray examinations suggest bone destruction in both the tibia and fibula.
An orthopaedic assessment is urgently required. I hope you can help her.

Yours,
Dotty

Our suspected diagnosis has been confirmed: chronic osteomyelitis.

Thanks to aggressive antibiotic treatment and regular wound care – initially surgical and then conservative – you, our dear donors, have helped Susan avoid an amputation of her lower leg.

Thank you very much!