8:10 AM Completely silent upstairs now but when i went in the bathroom @6:30 a Niagara Falls sound (water flowing a few seconds through the faucet in the empty tub, "to warm the pipe") and then more silent shower combined with a chocking smoke coming from outside triggered a whole anxiety episode.

When that type of smoke or others are present, there is never noise upstairs.

I don't usually hear that sound in the morning and generally lately. It caught me by complete surprise. 
But there was no surprise to me they knew when i went at the bathroom as they know all the time where i am and what i am doing, following me many times throughout the apartment with synched noises.

Could have been retaliation because i started earlier the washer a few seconds and then shut it down thinking it was too noisy too early. But it was during the time of noisy stumps in the morning though today it was silent though someone still left shortly after like usual.

I am now using a mask inside, trying to catch my breath. It feels like i'm breathing through my brain, and my lungs are never filled enough.
 
Lately they put loud TV if our TV sound setting is above 3 (out of 50) after 10 PM. It is true, it can be heard upstairs even at this low volume because these apartments are not sound proof. (Though they never talk to each other, in any language).

6:57 Tricks tricks tricks. There was a big diesel engine in  the parking lot and the kitchen window was about 4 inches open from doing laundry. I was in the kitchen area and peeked through the blinds to see what makes that noise and saw right in front of me a woman climbing the stairs also with a grocery bag. A novelty. Didn't have time to see her face, just instinctively backed up.

Yesterday we both went to Whole Foods to pick a free same day delivery Amazon wound care item (which i haven't even used, i changed my mind) and at the entrance of the complex (time was 3:30) stopped a school bus, opened the doors while station on 65th which is unusual, they normally enter in the complex and then opened the door, about ten well groomed Latino kids got out, i got to wait for them to pass or until the bus started, a long couple of minutes while all traffic on 65th was stopped and drivers looking.

After Whole Foods we went at Walmart, me waiting in the car, after half hour i started the phone but was keeping it out the window on speaker to minimize exposure at the legs, one curly big haired fat guy came to pick the carts and it looked like i was taking picture of him etc. and it felt like it was dispatched. BTW why Walmart prefer to pay people to gather carts instead of adding more cart bays in the lot? (they are very few and distant).

Most time when i go in the kitchen to get some foods and it is predictable, they bring a car at the day care apartment (D5). When we go or come from somewhere people with little kids get out.

It feels like they are getting real tight at me.

7:10 Was experimenting with Optifoam. Engineered to keep the moisture inside and suck the exudate while maintaining a certain humidity which really accelerates would heeling.

Problem is i have very bad circulation in the left side of the foot and it gets worse with cold. When cold enough, all the surface blood vessels constrict to keep temperature in and that does not help with wound heeling but it promotes infection which comes from the eschar.

So i have to keep it warm, got a couple of heavy cuffs which heat up in the microwave for 30 seconds and keeps warm for several hours. Yes of course i checked the temperature with different thermometers, on and off, don't want more than body temperature at the wound.

I had a big setback on Sunday when i went outside with the puny shoes with no sole and the ground was cold and my foot got chilled and the skin next to wound infected really bad (red-blue purple). So i went back to antibiotics in patches, got 4 of them in 24 hours, was really bad, i thought i got it out of control and also wore the cuffs.

But then i saw the biggest granulation ever. First didn't know what to make of it, i thought it was adhesive from the optifoam. But then i quit wearing the cuffs, did not put optifoam anymore, not knowing where the infection was coming for and the next day the wound dried and i lost most of it so i went back to optifoam.

However my feet went cold from sitting at the computer (it is like in the morning, when i am better, i forget everything it happened the next day and now i'm back with vasoconstriction mediated infection with red-blue-skin and chills and i just put a patch, will take some oral.

7:30 Ordered a pair of shoes with one size up (will stuff something soft at the heel) with sole and everything and they were shown as free delivery tomorrow with prime. However when i looked at orders list they are shown to be delivered on Friday. Will order them again to see what happens.

Ok did order them again. LOL Canceled most recent order. Amazon hates me.

6:42 March annual apartment inspection on Thursday. Deep cleaning, found some weird white stuff on bathroom sink cabinet walls (inside), don't know what it was but smelled bacterial and human dead skin, just cleaned it. Now i stink like that stuff, got to take a shower. Could that have contributed to my never ending skin infection next to the wound.

10:35 AM Lisinopril is generally used to lower blood pressure. However the mechanism of lowering it is by promoting vasodilation which in turn improves peripheral circulation which can be good for ischemic disease including heart or wounds caused and maintained by low circulation.

6:10 PM Granulox is a medicine made of purified hemoglobin used to accelerate wound healing by bringing extra oxygen to tissues but is not available in the US yet.

6:30 Just started to do a search, they came and threatened to awake Angela (by creaking and stumping the floor real loud).

11:50 How interesting. By the middle of the week the surface winds shift from south to norht and the whole weather thing turns (unusually) cold.

12:02 AM There is smoke in the apartment. I keep making mistakes, forgetting things, take wrong decision about the wound etc.. Upstairs they keep making noises though they toned it down a bit. Maybe they are affected by smoke as well.

6:00 PM Everybody walks and hit things a bit differently. Though the script remain the same, there are subtle variations in what people upstairs are doing. The reason they never talk to each other (except when i mention it, i hear one single feminine voice on the stairs and sometimes a guy caughing).

Rest of the time they must be different persons. I noticed earlier one guy making less and less noise like he got tired and i relaxed thinking there will be a break and then he left and half hour or one hour later he came back full of energy enough to tear the floor apart for hours.

8:00 PM (Don't) tell Musk!

8:20 BTW i drove yesterday with Angela 20 miles through traffic in the other side of town so she could hear her ultimate diagnosis for back pain. Bad feng shui inside the car Old age.

10:35

5:25 PM Amazon is always screwing me in critical moments. Everything comes in time except items i need right away.

11:30 PM No more response for antibiotics (triple ointment) + sprinkled amoxicillin and Augmentin systemic. Color of skin around wound became blue/purple. Deep pain inside, could be bones.

Out of desperation and intuition switched to betadine (iodine), used three times in 12 hours and now again at 24 hours and clindamycin oral (for several days now, which i have not taken before) plus Augmentin cutaneous. Kept my legs elevated and within hours pain turned to soreness and then it was gone. Never thought this would happen, the way i felt and the wound looked. Was thinking ER.

Skin color is almost back to normal. Some focal point on the upper left disappeared. There is still some numbness, don't feel nothing when i touch the wound. It happened during debridement too.

When all that bacteria died, i went briefly numb when i woke up the second time this morning. It happened before in some mornings since this started. Trouble walking, talking, chewing, that goes away during the day. It all indicates i had clostridium probably still have some. Massive bacteria death from betadine releases toxins that is.

BTW i get chills every time i eat something from the fridge.

Lately i slept in the bedroom, changed sheets weekly, showered every other day using rose soap, my sense of smell is coming back and i can tell there is still some s...t smell coming from the closet from the old pan under then new heater. Plan on flooding that closet again with ozone.

Upstairs. They became extremely active especially after last trauma with the boot. By reviewing the pictures of the boot frame and seeing the dedication they use for walking and creaking and stumping for  hours, following my thoughts and moods, i start to believe again the Satanism hypothesis.

9:30 It started about 30 minutes ago. A power blower that drives me nuts. I know today is Wednesday and they were suppose to come, but usually after 2 PM. Today i was about to miss them cause i have an appointment at 2. So they came early just to make sure i get it?

1:15 PM The frame of the boot, made of strong metal bars have been somehow fixed by the doctor himself in the office (i tried and it's not easy).

Yesterday i wanted to use the cushion part of the boot (it normally sticks by velcro on the two bars) just to warm up my foot and leg but i realize it is not possible because it also has a defect (the seam on the left side is longer) that creates a wrinkle that also presses on the side of the foot next to wound, creating pressure on the inflamed tissue and bruising it. As of right now, the new bruising after the last use at Walmart has not been undone completely.
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12:40 For what's worth it. (Another) 5 months of noise and misery have ended. Will i ever be able to walk on it? 

5:12 AM It wasn't until the apartment filled with smoke from outside that my pain stopped.

Pain awoke me at 3:30 AM. Both from the wound (burning) and from diarrhea, because there was a poop next to hydrant all day yesterday (in fact, 3 small pieces).

Trouble is Angela awoke too because she can feel my pain. First, she was talking in her sleep while i was hurting and cursing at the boot (in my mind) then she fully awoke.

Yesterday we both went at Walmart to get some wound supplies. As i said, could not find rolls of gauze (the good ones, 4 inches wide, made of cotton, just ordered some online). The stretching ones made of synthetic materials always tight the wound, cutting blood circulation. Towards the evening she found a cotton one forgotten in a bag.

But it could not help me much because yesterday i used the boot they gave me two weeks ago at the Wound Care Center. Mostly to keep me warm.

The tiny woman who bandaged my wound and gave me the boot could not adjust it herself because that boot is made of two metal bars full of Velcro. You are supposed to align the cushion part with the two bars and stick it to them. But it requires some force to do it. So she let me adjust it.

There was little time left from the visit so i did it in a hurry. Then they sent me to the lab where my CRP was elevated. It means inflammation. With the cushion on, you can't really see the boot is crooked. I never took a good look at until now.

I did an X-ray and was also supposed to do and MRI that was ordered after that. I walked towards the X-ray lab with my boot on.

But first, look at the boot. My foot barely fits there in the narrow area without the cushion. With the cushion it stays really tight, cutting circulation, especially after tightening in the upper side with the Velcro strips.

But after tightening of the Velcro strips it also stays in there crooked (and you do not realize it), with the ankle pressing on the left metal bar. There is a picture of my leg after i came from Walmart. The area was bruised. Later it became painful. Pain went deep inside.

5:40 Today i have another appointment there. He keeps asking for the MRI. How the MRI is going to come out after wearing that boot? I keep telling Angela how may times we have been screwed by doctors, starting with her botched radiation therapy that destroyed other organs. But there is no stopping her when it comes to taking care of me.

My wound in the maxilla that again took months to granulate and heal, while i ate with a straw, rinsed with salt water and took antibiotics for several months. My fractured jaw last year at the dentist, etc..

No i did not wear the boot much, only about three or four times. That day when they gave it to me. At least once when i went to pick the poops, last time with 4 F15s passing above. Yesterday at Walmart. But my mind is not working in real time when the apartment is intermittently flooded with smoke.

Yes i noticed that area left of the wound was bluer and swollen all the time and had a never healing infection.

Today after another week i have another appointment there. Angela went to work at 6 and she is comming back at 11 so we can go.

Just checked my blood pressure. It is elevated because i am stressed out. 160/89. But is not 214 over 108 like it was in there last time. They took it 4 times. The machine kept inflating, like three times each "attempt". It started something in the 180s/90s and then escalated. They put on the chart the biggest.

7:05 Just looked at the chart. He said a week ago he did a debridement though he told me he was going to remove just the pieces that are about to fall out. There is a picture of it (can see office cabinets in the background). When i got out they were asphalt fumes from a construction nearby. However in that day i did not wear the boot. In that day i showed him and posted an image showing visible progress of the wound in ten days without debridement.

I did not have any progress in the last 7 days. There are many things wrong in that note, including. He did not do nail debridement. There is no abnormal nail shape. He did not update my A1C since last test from 10.2 to 8.1. My blood pressure came elevated due to a broken or manipulated machine. Size of partial debridement was about 1 sqcm not 3. I was not referred to him by dr.Tomczak but by dr.Moore etc..

7:26 Yes i do have to wear a mask inside to mitigate with some of the smoke. Still dealing with the damage (bruising) and pain done yesterday by the boot.

10:50 PM They have been very active tonight upstairs. No talking, just walking, dragging things around. Angela knocked on the wall and yelled, they stopped for a couple of minutes. Cannot understand what they are doing in the bedroom to make these noises.

6:00 AM Poop apocalypse. As i said before there are at least 68 million dogs in the US or 1/4 of total number of people or roughly one dog per two houses. They poop twice daily in amounts comparable to humans.

However humans use toilets but pets don't, they rely on their symbionts to be manually serviced and there are no regulations on how a dog poop should be disposed of (how to properly knot the bags that is) and most owners simply don't know as 99% of the bags in the dumpsters are not (properly) knotted and they smell worse than those simply left on the ground, unbagged.

Yeah i know the problem seem trivial to many but after i ran into it for so many years now i can tell you, it is not. There is no general agreement on how to do it. There are videos on  how to knot a bag with poops but some promote mistakes as well.

BTW as i write here i feel some smell coming from outside. And my ginger tea went cold.

7:25 I saw a cistern like vehicle with the inscription "concrete pumping" and opened the door and it looks like they finally came to pour concrete on the newly created pathway north of the alley. Now i hear the pump pumping. Could it mean they are getting closer to finishing and at least i won't hear the excavator that was working there for the past 4 months no more?

8:10

9:07 I guess they brought in another one.

2:40 After one hell of a day with pouring concrete (must have been @5 of those) he started the black BMW and let it idle until the RPM went normal exactly when i finished pulling the bandages to do my wound dressing, like so many times before. How does he know?

5:11 The main reason i went to Walmart today was to watch the parade on the sidewalk there to buy bandages. However, the most common and important item used in wound dressing is missing there and i can't find it on Amazon either (the sterile, cotton, fluffy type).