Brian Your note is EXACTLY the same as mine. Mine started the same...callous, dr
digging, staph infection. 15 surgeries 7 toe amputations 5 PICC lines with
Vancomycin and ertipentum and now, they give up and want to do a below the knee
amputation.
I got hospital aquired MRSA from kaiser surgery! I am so scared and when I read
that you had the amputation, I feel the same thing will happen to me. My other
foot, my good one hurts because I favor it due to the fact the sick one can't
have any weight bearing on it. Are you being given vanco? I have only 1 week to
get other opinions before they cut off my IV antibiotics and force me to have
the amputation. Are you diabetic? Seems like blood sugar is effected by the
infection...goes with high fever. I gave in to insulin in order to have perfect
control over my blood sugars. Now they can't use diabetes as an excuse for the
infection they gave me. The diabetes does make healing slow though. Did your
amputation take long to heal? Did you get a prosthesis? Can you walk on your
own? Please tell me more...

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