Hey there, thank you for writing back. No am not on any antibotics. I did have
picc lines though. I heard people can be on a low dose of Vanco for years, but
they will not do that for me because i am ion so many other meds. I understand
how your "good" leg is not so good. I been having staph now in my "good" leg. If
I have to go through more infections and being in hospitals I may say cut off
the other leg. It just gets old!!!!!! To be honest I have no regrets about the
amputation, I feel great about it, I mean sure my life has changed and it sucks
I still get sick. But it really slowed me down, before i worked 7 days aweek, 2
full time jobs..never wanted to be at home. but now its like a second chance to
work on my marriage, relationship with kids. and i am learning so much..drawing,
painting, learned how to knit, make cards, scrapbook, even more. so there has
been a lot of positive. i am diabetic...and yes it does slow the healing...but i
figure i am
not going any where so slow is fine just as long as it heals. i am also on
insulin...i hate giving myself shots. no i am not looking into getting a
prosthesis. i have a doctor and he is a amputee and his advice was not to get
it. because the stump will rub on the socket and may break down the skin and
infection here we come. but i am happy  about that. my advice is this look long
term...if it keeps reocurring then go through with it. my infectious disease
doctor told me this..reason why foot doctors dont want u to go through the
amputation is this...if there is no foot, they have no job. foot doctors did
everything from casts to many braces..nothing worked. cut it OFF!! and also some
other advice...when u go through therapy...stick with it. i quit and regret it.
u will need great upper strength..i use a walker to go from certain
distance..upper body strength is needed. and work out, i gained so much weight
it gets me depressed...but i am working on
it.the stump healed up pretty fast and no problems...never looked better till
now. but there are the days of phantom pains...when ur brain thinks there is a
foot there but not. u may feel an itch in ur foot or something. spasms i had in
the beginning. well i hope this helped you cant wait to hear from u

--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Linda Cooper-Takao <lindacooper-takao@...> wrote:


From: Linda Cooper-Takao <lindacooper-takao@...>
Subject: [MRSA] ha-MRSA
To: MRSA@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 10:10 AM








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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