Pardon me while I whine for a bit

[luckydog95]

Femur injuries are very serious. I have been an EMT for over 15 years and those can kill you. Many times you can bleed out into your pelvic area.

Best wishes to everyone that posted. For the last poster and her DH with the motorcycle accident, that is a major injury. Hang in there. I know the road is long, but you are "blessed" (I know hard to think of it that way) to be on the road of walking again.

 

[wehavesix]

Oooh, Shelley that sounds awful! Your poor hubby!

I had my MRI today but won't see my doctor for another week because there were no available appointments sooner. I'm hoping to have the cyst and some of the screws removed the week before Thanksgiving. I have Thanksgiving week off so I would have all that week to stay completely off my leg. I'm pretty proficient with crutches now so it wouldn't be too terrible if I have to be on crutches for a little while longer. Especially if this means I will be DONE with this mess shortly.

Sending healing thoughts and good wishes to your hubs and to you, his caregiver. God bless the caregivers!

 

[drivencrazy]

Let us know what the MRI says.

I hurt my foot 4 weeks ago... I have been cruching around since as well. They found that it is nerve damage so I am now waiting for an appointment with a pain doctor. It sucks!

Sorry to hear that you are having to go through all this and I hope that they figure out what is going on sooner than later!

 

[MoniqueU]

I can feel for you and your husband. I'm on his end. My husband was in a motorcycle accident in late May of this year. He broke his femur, tibia, and fibula. He has a rod in the top part. And he has plates and about 30 pins in the bottom part. He was lucky that he had lots of sick leave on the books for the summer. He had a great surgeon in upstate NY. And a wonderful PT team.

He's a college teacher and was starting a new job mid August. So we moved south at the beginning of August and he was doing well. Driving himself to work and functioning on his own. And then he started feeling under the weather the week before Labor Day. Then we noticed a strange bump on his bad leg that Sunday and took him to the ED.

While in the ED, the infection spread throughout the leg and he spent 11 more days in the hospital and 6 weeks hooked up to a Wound V.A.C. machine and a constant IV antibiotic bag.

So just a couple weeks ago, he finally got unhooked from all the bags and is back to PT learning to walk. We're hoping he can be walking on his own, albiet slowly by Christmas.

And. . . they want to go in and take all that hardware out once he's completely healed to avoid future infections. But that means cutting his leg back open and all those holes in his bones from where they take the pins out and he'll be back on crutches for 6+ weeks again.

As you can imagine, he's not looking forward to that.

Shelley

OMG!!! I was just sitting here feeling sorry for myself due to alot of things. This instantly snapped me back to reality. Your husband and yourself are totally in my thoughts. I can't believe how much you have been through.
To the OP I hope you are getting better.

 

[veraletta]

You should whine, I think you deserve too look at what you have gone through.
You deserve a gold star for hanging in there.
Hope you start to feel better soon.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

Wow. No wonder you need to vent. You have been through a lot!!! Keep counting those blessings.

 

[rie'smom]

I'm sorry you have more surgery on the horizon.

 

[wehavesix]

I had my MRI Friday. The technician said he got the needed images in spite of the metal in my leg. I wasn't able to get an appt to see my surgeon again until Nov. 3 so I won't know any more until then. Thanks to all for the support! Y'all are so nice!