Re:MRSA/Connie

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Oh, Connie, what an ordeal your husband went through. My own husband blew out

the ligaments in his knee at work a few years back, and I know how bad that was,

can only imagine how your husband made it through. I think the war vets have

had to endure such awful things while at war, that they must have extra courage

for dealing with health problems.

I hope you are having a good day today.

Jeanne in WI

O My what a frightening infection this is, my husband has had this several

times, once in very difficult to eradicate totally, and this is a terrible thing

for him since he has 2 knee replacements. The first time he had this horrible

infection was many years ago in a VA hospital after knee surgery to remove torn

cartelige. Several more surgeries later and too many years he finally gets a

total knee replacement, also from the VA and just a few weeks later, after

constant complaints about pain and oozing, he lost the knee to a flareup of the

infection, of course the VA would not claim responcibility and wanted to wait a

few days to ship him from Alaska back to Portland where he had the surgery. He

would not have survived that trip and the VA finally approved him to be treated

by a local, private, surgeon. He went 4 months with an IV attached and no knee

in his leg (olny a piece of concrete to keep the cut ends of the bone apart)

Did I mention that he was in pain at the time??? I dare not complain too much

about pain, because he knows all about it for sure! When he got the next knee

in he did ok, but then a couple years after that one healed and he went thru a

bout of chemo type treatment for -of all things- they discovered that he also

had Hep-C from way back in the Viet Nam war! then he got the third knee. He

healed up nicely from that, but got the infection in his foot! He was once

again attached to the IV and got a different type of antibiotic treatment.

After that he seems to have lost the feeling in his feet and has some trouble

keeping his balance on uneven ground because of it. Some of the meds he has had

includes Vancomycin (IV therapy) Levaquin, tablets, and another IV drug that I

have forgotton.