Shane's Story - Hyperbaric treatment at columbus regional health

My name is Shane Lark. I live here in Columbus Indiana and I ride a motorcycle. I love to ride my motorcycle. I had been hit by a pickup truck and pinned up against a trailer and it kind of split my leg open to the bone from the knee to the ankle. I had an injury about eighteen years ago and it's caused me to have to wear a brace on my right leg. All I could think about is he hit my good leg and all I could think about was losing that leg. I'd never heard of the hyperbaric treatment before. Originally I had some fears to get in the chamber. After a couple visits I was really comfortable with it. I just pretty much laid in there and went to sleep and it was great after I got used to it. You can leave your bandage on while you're in the chamber and you're breathing in 100 percent oxygen which pushes the oxygen through the wound in the blood. It really seemed like it sped my healing process on a lot if you could see this leg the way it was before and now. There's a big difference in a short period of time, less than two months it was a really nasty cut and now it's more like a scrape. It's really sped my recovery on so much that now the doctors say that I don't need a skin graft and originally they thought that I would have to. If this wasn't available at Columbus Regional Hospital I don't know if I would've been able to go all the way up to Indianapolis or somewhere else. It's very valuable to me because I haven't been able to work and I couldn't really afford to gas to drive back and forth. It's definitely been a success for me and I'm really looking forward to getting this bandage off which I think is coming pretty soon and ride my motorcycle and just not worry about my wound.