No Maggots, as I did not have a necrotic tissue issue. In my case, it's basiclly extremely poor blood flow in my leg, due to a previous bout with celulitus, compromising my veins. It does not help that I am extremely overweight

The national mean time to heal what I have is 27 months, My MD aims for 24 weeks, and we should make it - I've been in treatment since late May, and if I keep making progress at the rate I've been the last 3 weeks, I should be done before Christmas. In the last 2 weeks, I've been able to use certain treatments that I could not tolerate say 5 weeks ago, and those treatments acccelerate the healing drasticlly. My MD says that "wound healing is a dynamic game, what works well this week my be wrong next week, and what works for patient A won't work, or may not be tolerated by patient B" (for instance, I can NOT tollerate the classic 4 layer wrap - we've tried it 3 times - within 12 hours, I was in so much pain the bandages had to be removed)

My MD thinks that chronic wound care is best treated as a partnership between him, his staff, and the patient, and if the patient is well enough, he teaches us a lot of the techniques

Today, he had me restart a light debridement technique that I could not tollerate a bit back - wetting down the wound, and taking a VERY soft brush to the wound - it removes the soft scab that is above viable skin, and allows it to heal quicker - similar to what they do to burn patients - and yeah, it HURTS, I can imagine what it must feel like on a deep burn. I have a new respect for burn patients after this