please keep chef away from dallas thursday - post-operative infection sucks

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Did they have to butterfly it first?

 

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No. I was not the party who was butterflied in that situation.

 

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Good.

ACL reconstruction? Yikes ...

 

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Yeah, they couldn't just do it through a scope, they had to go all the way in. There were some extenuating circumstances.

But here's what I hope tx keeps in mind: for as much as that surgery and recovery sucked, my "new knee" eventually felt a thousand times better. It even became stronger than my previous "good knee" on the non-affected leg.

 

Re: please keep chef away from dallas thursday - boo infection

ok, let's try this again. back home from the hospital a second time. had a nasty little infection that landed me back in the hospital for 4 days. white blood count was pretty high and they had to put a central line in that went straight to an artery near the heart. wbc still not in normal range but they sent me home again sunday because it was coming down after multiple rounds of some powerful antibiotics via i.v. scary part was the only option had the infection not gotten turned around was removal of all the implants and a six-week hospital stay before starting over. well, that and the ramifications of the infection getting into the blood stream.

 

Holy cow! At least they got it under control. Any chance you picked up that infection at the hospital?

 

Ouch. And I got you beat ... I KEPT my staples from my ACL remake!

Do your rehab. All the way, every day. Push yourself. It is the only way you'll eventually get better. Mine was four years ago, and now feels better than the other knee (though it stiffens up when weather is coming in ...)

RB

 

Hey it could be worse, you could still be working with me K-Fed . . . and Bill J says hi, I know how much you miss him

 

bill j is a giant infection

 

I whole-heartedly concur. I had a kidney removed last October and once morphine wasn't much help, I was introduced to the wonders of dilaudid.