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06-30-2013, 07:24 AM
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Well wishes for your continued recovery!
Lower leg and feet injuries take much longer to recover and you should be thankful that infection did not claim your foot or worse.
It's these types of incidents that should make all of us understand how precious it is to be in good health and how something seemingly insignificant can take you for a very unpleasant detour.
Go enjoy your beautiful 928 again!
Best regards,
Lower leg and feet injuries take much longer to recover and you should be thankful that infection did not claim your foot or worse.
It's these types of incidents that should make all of us understand how precious it is to be in good health and how something seemingly insignificant can take you for a very unpleasant detour.
Go enjoy your beautiful 928 again!
Best regards,
06-30-2013, 06:16 PM
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Very glad to read about your recovery Richard, and thanks for providing the warning - I was first automatically thinking that it was a rusty roof nail rather than a brand new one.
It's so easy to take ones good health for granted...
It's so easy to take ones good health for granted...
06-30-2013, 06:53 PM
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Last July 23rd i stepped on a discarded roofing nail in my back yard and despite putting antibiotic on it, the wound turned gangrene. Spent 2 weeks in the hospital on IV antibiotics trying to stop the infection. Doctors were expecting me to die from the infection. When finally stopped I had lost one toe and 1/3 of the flesh on my foot. For the next month they were expecting me to lose my foot. For the next month after that they were expecting me to lose my little toe. They had already remove the toe next to my little toe because the infection had gotten into the bone. They used some new stuff called ACELL that stimulates and regrows whatever cells it come into contact with. instead of my foot just scarring over it grew new flesh except for the lost toe. it was doing really well and it looked like i was going to be able to walk by Christmas when there were some secondary complications due to the long term powerful antibiotic use. It took 3 months to get the secondary infections under control and a fourth surgery to remove the knuckle from my little toe. 11 months after stepping on the nail all that is left is a wound on the top of my foot about the size of a quarter that is quickly closing. Only this week have the doctors given me the okay to start bearing weight on my foot again.
Don't know if better for it is quite the words I would use. After being basically bed ridden for over 10 months, only allowed to get vertical long enough to go to the restroom. I have definitely learned whom I can count on and whom my real friends are.
Don't know if better for it is quite the words I would use. After being basically bed ridden for over 10 months, only allowed to get vertical long enough to go to the restroom. I have definitely learned whom I can count on and whom my real friends are.
This just goes to show that a 928 with a Rogerbox is always the better choice!
07-01-2013, 10:51 AM
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I love the bwaah of letting the revs get up there before shifting, and those burbling throttle blip rev matching downshifts.
Told the surgeon at the start of the foot ordeal that I wanted to keep my for so I could heel and toe.
My wound care doctor ended up being a fellow autocrosser and understands.
Told the surgeon at the start of the foot ordeal that I wanted to keep my for so I could heel and toe.
My wound care doctor ended up being a fellow autocrosser and understands.
07-01-2013, 12:32 PM
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Holy crap Richard! I had no idea you were going through this. I would have come up and visited with you! Glad to hear you are on the upswing side of things now. Keep in touch when you decide to hit up the Dallas breakfast, I'd love to go down again. It looks like I'll finally be having my weekends back to myself so I can get out and about.
07-01-2013, 10:13 PM
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Glad to hear you have mostly made it through the ordeal. Scary stuff to hear about. The MRSA Staph infection can have similar serious results. It acts fast too. People lose limbs from it and/or die cause they delayed taking action soon enough. Once it gets fully in your blood stream its about impossible to stop.
When our son was in college about 8 yrs ago, he came home one weekend. As he was laying on his stomach on the floor watching tv, I happen to notice that the back of one of his calfs looked a bit sunburned. I then noticed what looked like a bug bite in the middle of his calf with some swelling. He said he thought it was just an ingrown hair. I knew right away that his leg was red from an infection. I took him to the emergency room.
When the doc lanced it, the infection shot 8' across the room! They packed it with a ton of medicated gauze, gave him antibiotics, then said he had to come back the next night for them to look at it again. Never heard of an emergency room making you come back the next day. The next night was July 4th; different doc. She said it was MRSA & it was rampant at that time anywhere people are in close contact in masses, in hospitals, colleges, any contact sports, prisons, etc. She gave him a different antibiotic & said they were starting to use antibiotics they hadn't used in 30 yrs since MRSA was becoming immune to the ones currently used. She told us he had to go to his regular doc the next day. He gave him a 3rd antibiotic & told us he would line up a surgeon to be on call to cut that area of infection out of his calf if it hadn't started to show improvement within 48 hours! Fortunately, it showed signs of improvement within that time to prevent any surgery. In a few weeks it went away.
Since it was somewhat new regarding it being so rampant, I researched it & was surprised to see how serious it was. Found out a friend of my son's at another college had to have one of his entire calf muscles removed because of it. A couple years later, a friend told us they knew a nurse friend that had to have one of her legs completely amputated because of it & almost died.
Scary stuff those little no-see-ums!! Thinkin driving that GTS is gonna be an especially appreciated blessing each time you get behind the wheel!
When our son was in college about 8 yrs ago, he came home one weekend. As he was laying on his stomach on the floor watching tv, I happen to notice that the back of one of his calfs looked a bit sunburned. I then noticed what looked like a bug bite in the middle of his calf with some swelling. He said he thought it was just an ingrown hair. I knew right away that his leg was red from an infection. I took him to the emergency room.
When the doc lanced it, the infection shot 8' across the room! They packed it with a ton of medicated gauze, gave him antibiotics, then said he had to come back the next night for them to look at it again. Never heard of an emergency room making you come back the next day. The next night was July 4th; different doc. She said it was MRSA & it was rampant at that time anywhere people are in close contact in masses, in hospitals, colleges, any contact sports, prisons, etc. She gave him a different antibiotic & said they were starting to use antibiotics they hadn't used in 30 yrs since MRSA was becoming immune to the ones currently used. She told us he had to go to his regular doc the next day. He gave him a 3rd antibiotic & told us he would line up a surgeon to be on call to cut that area of infection out of his calf if it hadn't started to show improvement within 48 hours! Fortunately, it showed signs of improvement within that time to prevent any surgery. In a few weeks it went away.
Since it was somewhat new regarding it being so rampant, I researched it & was surprised to see how serious it was. Found out a friend of my son's at another college had to have one of his entire calf muscles removed because of it. A couple years later, a friend told us they knew a nurse friend that had to have one of her legs completely amputated because of it & almost died.
Scary stuff those little no-see-ums!! Thinkin driving that GTS is gonna be an especially appreciated blessing each time you get behind the wheel!
