Will it ever end?

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My name is Cheryl,

I am 41, three years ago I ha dental work done, I ended up getting

Staph. It went to the blood stream, and the SI Joint, I was septic.

The hosptial appointed me a Infectious Disease Doc. (ID) She treated

me for Staph, three weeks later she took my pic line out and that was

it.

Fast foward three years..

Last April I was having a hard time walking, I was coming home from

work and taking naps. I was running fevers, I started having problem

remembering things, I was reading numbers backwards. I quit my job

because I couldn't handle the stress. My family had been giving me a

hard time, they were calling me names, giving me all sorts of crap

because I was sleeping all the time, I was fat, lazy, and I couldn't

walk upstairs, so I should be excercising. I had been in bed for

about 3 weeks in pain. I went to the chiropractor, he tried to move

my legs so he could crack my back, well I threw up in his office. He

told me to go home and lay on ice. I went back, same thing after that

I told him I was going to the ER for pain killers, he said that I

shouldn't get pain killers, I needed to know my limititaions. Screw

that I went right to the ER. They sent me for a back MRI, I was

having incontance, with the SI nerve pain, the said it was

nerologicol. The nerologist said that everything was fine, he sent me

to a MD he reccemoneded. Dr Mcwilliams, well he took two hours of

history with me, he sent me to get a pelvic MRI.

Four hours after me Dr. got my results, I was addmitted to the HOSP.

The MRI results were incredabile. I had three fluid pockets the size

of tennis balls, on my pelvis, one on each SI Joint, one on my tail

bone next to my spinal cord and 30 or 40 seedlings inbetween. They

did some tests, and found out it was Staph. They put a central line

in my heart, started IV antibiotics, they ended up doing surgery to

in sert drain tubes in in the fluid pockets, they couldn't cut them

open, there was so much bacteria, that if they just cut them open, it

would go right to the heart causing stroke heart attack, and the

bacteria would have traveled from the heart to the eyes, causing

blindness. UGH! I was on IV antibiotics untill Sept. they had to take

my grocion out as it was causing blood clots in my jugular viens. I

have had several MRI'S done and the pockets are growing back, but

they have found the bone is infected, adn has been for three years!!

Heck the Staph pockets have been in there for 3 years making me sick.

So here I am hating life, begging for sugery. I hate this, I am sorry

about the long story, it's a bad day. But I will admit my family

feels horribale, they are so sorry, It's ok heck I never even knew I

was sick!