Jan,

I'm so sorry to hear of your troubles.  I haven't heard of this but I
guess anything can happen.  I hope that you are now on the road to
recovery.  Are you able to bare weight and walk on it now?  Just
wanted you to know you are in my thoughts.

debbie m.

Yuck! That doesn't sound fair, Jan. Hang in there, Hon, and get well soon.
Hope you have help at home. It's sucks that you had to go up to the hospital
so often. I thought I had it bad with 2X a week!

DeeTee

This happened to my BIL about ten years ago.  But we don't see them much and
I really don't know what all he went through.  Only that it was successful,
he is still with us and still on his feet.

Jo

Oh my word...  You know I got staph in my knee (it's *my* knee though,
not a replacement) in 02.  Nearly died because my PCP had no idea what
was going on, just drew fluid off and gave me a shot of some steroid
or other.  They had sent the fluid for testing, "just to be safe",
good thing they did.  Ended up in hospital for a week.

The reason I say this, I had no injuries at all.  I didn't have an RD
at that time, but the infectious diseases doctor (who said he was
completely unfamiliar with the strain of staph I had) said it was
possible I got it from the Remicade Infusions (the pain and slight
swelling started a day or two after an infusion).  It's "possible"
however unlikely that the staph got into your system during the
infusion, like mine did.

I had an IV pump for the antibiotics.  The one I had was worn in a
pack, worn around the waist, it was set to go off every 4 hours, so I
had constant antibiotic treatment without having to go into the
hospital.  Nurses came out every other day to change the IV bag for
me, though I could have done it myself.  Had that for 4 or 6 weeks
(was on alot of pain killers at the time), then had oral antibiotics
for another 4 weeks.  I see that you aren't doing the hospital visits
anymore though, so that's a good thing.

As has already been stated, make certain  you take your antibiotics on
schedule.  You already know how much staph hurts, but it can get so
much worse.

Smokie Darling (Annie) - sending positive thoughts your way

Wow! How frightening for you. This is an important reminder that those
of us with various replaced joints need to be extra careful.

My sister went through something like 16 months of infection (
probably staph aureus) following her tkr. She was on all kinds of
antibiotics, and finally had the prosthesis removed, the puck (that is
what they called it) put in, and eventually removed. She is fine now,
but she was at the point where amputation seemed to be the only thing
left.
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