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Whew. Hope it gets resolved for the best.
Just thought I would share with my cyber acquaintances...
Hopefully the beginning of the end of my knee replacement saga...I have been bone on bone in both knees for several years now. Back in May I had a knee replacement on my right knee. Surgeon was awesome...I literally walked out of the hospital the next day. I did it on a Friday and was back at work Monday. After three weeks it felt better than it had in years...then it started to feel "funny" and the incision started to split back open. Turns out that I was allergic to the internal s ches they had used that were supposed to dissolve...instead of dissolving they started trying to climb back outside my knee...I kept doctoring it under the doctors direction and it wouldn't close because of the s ches trying to get out of my knee...I continued working and messed around and eventually got a staph infection in my knee...
It swelled and turned red purple overnight and I immediately went back to my doctor who did emergency surgery on it that evening...he went back in, cleaned and scrubbed the knee, took the knee apart, and changed all the plastic parts. He left a lot of time release antibiotic in there as he closed (using a different type of s ch) and I was back at work three days later. The problem with artificial knees is that they are made of metal and plastic. When you get an infection it makes a perfect home for it as there are no blood vessels there to carry antibiotics inside the knee. I went on IV antibiotics for six weeks and then on "maintenance" oral antibiotics. The plan was to stay on those for a year or so and if there were no complications we wold talk about getting off the oral antibiotics...no such luck...the knee blew back up a few weeks later...my daughter was getting married the first week of October and I wanted to walk her down the aisle so I put off the next surgery until after the wedding and just lived with trying to keep the infection at bay with antibiotics.
As soon as the wedding was over they went in and removed my right knee completely. I have had an antibiotic plaster spacer since then...part is on the end of the upper leg bone and part is on the lower leg bone. My doctor said it was going to be "pretty unpleasant" and he wasn't kidding LOL. Move wrong and it pinches the heck out of the meat between them and as the plaster gradually broke apart it turned into sand and gravel mixed in with the meat so as I move it cuts me and the inside of the knee is just a bloody mess.
I went back on IV antibiotics and then started getting skin reactions from the antibiotics and the PICC line...it was like a third degree burn and took my skin right off in big patches around the PICC line area...they moved it from my right arm to my left arm and then to my chest and the rashes followed...also broke out in itching sores all over my body...I was going nuts for awhile and couldn't sleep...owning my own company it wasn't like I could stay home till I got well...I was going three and 4 days at a time with just sleeping an hour or two a night. Finally finished the second six week IV treatment and went off antibiotics in December...then it was just a matter of waiting...
It hasn't blown up again and the weekly blood work finally looks good so we are going back in and opening it up again Friday...if the Doc doesn't find any infection I'll wake up with a new knee...If he finds any it will plaster basketball knee again and six more weeks of IV's and 3-4 more months of crutches.
After 4 months on crutches without a knee I am definitely ready for some resolution. I'm not complaining...it is what it is and could have been a lot worse...just needed to vent...had to go off the Celebrex (anti-inflammatory) for the surgery and the knee has been screaming all week so I'm ready to get this done...2 more days and a wakeup...
Whew. Hope it gets resolved for the best.
Best of Luck CC!
Did you check with Boo to see if there is anything available at Sprouts to heal your knee instead of being a victim of the profit driven sickcare system?
good luck! hope it all works out.
by the way....thats 2 threads about bad to the bone.
Ouch man, hope you wake up with the new knee on Friday.
So he installed a placeholder that disintegrated and tore up the inside of your knee as well as used s ches that you were allergic to and they did nothing about? Sounds like you are getting ed here, man. Hope things get better, I have seen how demoralizing losing mobility can be.
Who is your surgeon so I know not to use them?
Good luck. My dad had both knees replaced and he's still walking around at 83 years old... hopefully once they get it right, you'll be fine.
This isn't a knee jerk reaction is it. it's not very funnee. And other puns
Good luck CC. Good thing you got Obamacare!
LOL..
Good thing he doesn't!
They'd probably amputate as a cheaper fix.
Friday the 13th
good luck man
Good luck, CC. I hope all goes well with the next procedure and your recovery.
Wrong forum.
But hope it all goes well and you're back on here soon backing Big Pharma, BIg Oil, and the VRWC.
ouch. hope all goes well, CC.
Ow. That made me pucker just reading it.
Wish you well.
Of course, you are still wrong about the protocol thing.
Be well, and let us know you made it through. We're rootin.
Thanks for the good wishes. Hopefully I will be back at work Monday giving you guys ...
If your knee has any swelling after surgery eat some wheatgrass.
6 1/2 hours in surgery. Sore mother er but I have wheels again. Checked out of the hospital at 3 yesterday. Walking fine finally. Been a long 4 months on one leg.
Even got my anasthesia/narco out of the way. Life is good!
When I had an umbilical hernia fixed, the anesthesia/narco really constipated me, for days.Even got my anesthesia/narco out of the way. Life is good!
In the surgery follow up, the surgeon told me, paraphrase, "yep, that stuff shuts down all your muscles, including those of gastrointestinal peristalsis."
Which reminded me of an article that said if heroin addicts can get a clean supply, they can live, function normally forever, with chronic constipation as the major side effect.
Part of the surgery prep paper should have been "complete laxative 24 hours before surgery and then liquids/juices only"
welcome back
damn boutons you still have an umbilical cord? must be tough.
Damn, going through that many infections would freak me the out. Glad everything turned out fine for you.
Nice. We can go climb El Capitan this weekend.
maybe not this weekend but hope to be snow skiing next year.
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