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I had to have surgery again! STAFF Infection!
This is Tara Ward, you might remember me from "I need someone to help" I havent written in a while because out of no where with no symptoms what so ever for the exception of an itchy part on my incision that was healing started to feel a little funny, nothing that i thought i should really be too concerned about but i called the doctor on memorial day and he told me to go to the emergency room back at the hospital. ( you all could imagine what i was feeling at that time) But i bared it and went, found out that the itchy part on my back on the incision was infected. I had no signs of fever or chills....nothing. My surgon came up to the hospital and declared that we had to have surgery yet again, and that he had to flush out the whole 16 inch incision back down to the bone with 6 liters of antibiotics..........great huh!
I was so freaked out and let me tell you the second stay was just as long as the first and even more painful than the first time, i don't know why. They ran 2 cultures on the stuff on the skin and one on the fluid surounding my spine. The one on the skin grew in less than a day pronouncing that i had a STAFF Infection. All i had to do was wait to see if it had gone down to the bone. I was so scared. 3 days later the culture they took on the fluid surrounding the bone grew. It had gone down to the bone. They had to put in a 'PICC Line' which is a tube that goes in through your forearm and goes into your heart. They also had 2 tubes comeing out of my back where they had to drain infection so it felt like i was layingon a damn garden hose but when it came time to take them out it hurt sooooooo bad! I screamed. Couldent help it. But the reasion for the PICC line was so that i could administer IV antibiotics twice a day at home by an 'at home' nurse for a month solid. Only at the end of this month will i know if i beat the infection. I need all your prayers you guys because if the infection doesent go away, i have to go in again and have the rods taken out be on antibiotics for months then i have to go in again and have the rods put back in.........pray for me. I need all the support i can get. Have any of you ever had something like this happen to you?
I was so freaked out and let me tell you the second stay was just as long as the first and even more painful than the first time, i don't know why. They ran 2 cultures on the stuff on the skin and one on the fluid surounding my spine. The one on the skin grew in less than a day pronouncing that i had a STAFF Infection. All i had to do was wait to see if it had gone down to the bone. I was so scared. 3 days later the culture they took on the fluid surrounding the bone grew. It had gone down to the bone. They had to put in a 'PICC Line' which is a tube that goes in through your forearm and goes into your heart. They also had 2 tubes comeing out of my back where they had to drain infection so it felt like i was layingon a damn garden hose but when it came time to take them out it hurt sooooooo bad! I screamed. Couldent help it. But the reasion for the PICC line was so that i could administer IV antibiotics twice a day at home by an 'at home' nurse for a month solid. Only at the end of this month will i know if i beat the infection. I need all your prayers you guys because if the infection doesent go away, i have to go in again and have the rods taken out be on antibiotics for months then i have to go in again and have the rods put back in.........pray for me. I need all the support i can get. Have any of you ever had something like this happen to you?
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CONNIE
SO HARD! but i got through it, dont know how i cant take this for a month solid, but ........anything but the hospital again. Hope all is well with you and thank you SO MUCH for the help, email me anytime!!!
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