by Metalefty » Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:22 pm
A few weeks ago I'm recovering from my meniscus surgery, which was going great except for the saline leaking from one of the stitches, it had stopped for a few days then came back again. The next morning I get up and everything is normal, I make and eat breakfast and on the laptop for about an hour, when I stood up it felt like I had tweaked my knee, I limped around taking care of things then I sat down for about half an hour, when I stood up it was worse, did a few more things sat down for a while got up and now the pain is getting bad. I called my ortho doc and she said to keep an eye on the saline color and take it easy on the leg a couple days. I couldn't sleep that night from the pain so in the morning I told the wife I was going to the ER, when I was getting dressed my ortho doc called and asked how I was doing and since it was Saturday I told her I was getting ready to leave for the ER, she said she was on call and to come to her office. At this point I can't walk so I had to break out the crutches again, when I get there she uses that big thick needled syringe to pull out fluid from my knee, ok, thats a kind of pain I haven't felt before. So I go next door to the hospital until we here from the lab about the sample. A short time later the results are a Staph infection, so I have an IV in each hand and a Piccline in my inner arm, for those of you who have never heard of a Piccline it's an IV/catheter that goes in your upper inner arm and reaches almost to your heart, it's for the antibiotic to be injected intravenously, now into surgery I go and I wake with a less sore leg and a drain coming out of my wrapping. After several days of exercises and tests and pulling out my drain(ow again)they say I'm about ready to go home, but no, the wrapping is undone and the doc pinches one of my sutures to make blood drool out, she does it again and the blood doesn't look right, back to surgery the next day. So I wake up from surgery on Wednesday with another drain coming out of my leg, later that day the doc comes in and says that should be it and says I can go home the next day while she proceeds to pull out my drain, it won't budge, she takes off the wrapping and tugs more, at this time tears are nearly running down my face then POP, it comes out, I didn't want anyone talking to me for a half hour until I recovered from the pain deep within my soul. On top of this, I haven't pooped in six days, but that ended right before I left the hospital to come home. Now that I'm home I had a case of saline and antibiotics delivered and a nurse came over to show me how to use it all. So twice a day I have to intravenously inject saline and antibiotics for the next 28 days and use crutches for 2 weeks while exercising leg muscles back to regular strength. I thought I was getting back on the bike in mid March but now it looks like May. The leg fracture and meniscus surgery was a cake walk compared to this past week. The moral of the story kids is that Staph infections are a serious issue to not be taken lightly, please take care of those cuts and stitches.
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