Here is the first blog on this journey to get rid of this infection. Over the next 6 weeks or so I am gonna blog about the journey so that I can share with the rest of you on whats going on.For those who don't know here is the story (so far)
December 13th I was heading out the door to go bake at my step sister's house, and I was bringing out the last of the items we were taking, everyone was already in the car. I went across the yard like I always do and this time I slipped, HARD. I fell down with my foot under my butt and it was facing outwards..( I will admit I was a screaming BANSHEE at this point, so all my neighbors heard me) when I tried to get up I knew it was broken, sure enough later that day I found out I broke my Fibula bone and tore a bunch of tendons in my foot. I had surgery on December 21st and came home the next day. Recovery was very hard as I couldn't do ANYTHING! I was very disappointed in myself and couldn't figure out why this had happened. Fast forward to about 3 weeks ago, I went in to the doctor's office so that they could see how things were healing, I was in a walking boot at this point. He mentioned there might, and I mean might be an infection then because of discoloration around the scar...um ok, not what I wanted to hear. So a date was set for surgery March 11th. The VERY next week guess what I had...TWO of my teeth suddenly got VERY abcessed and I went to the dentist, where the plan WAS to take them out this coming Monday.....well, that had to be cancelled because, yesterday I found out there WAS an infection. At that point they weren't sure what kind of infection and they gave me an antibiotic while I was at the surgery center...guess what,30 minutes after they give me this medicine, I start breaking out and itching all over...I WAS ALLERGIC! I couldn't believe it! I got Benedryl and all that went away. I was told at first that I would be on IV antibiotics for 3 weeks....well today that all changed...evidently the infection was deep in my bone and now I am getting an IV for the weekend and on Monday I am getting the PICC line for the antibiotic that is now going to take SIX weeks to heal...ugh. So there you have it. I will be blogging about this journey for the next 6 weeks or so. So please follow along and put in any words of encouragement, because that would help...ALOT!
Thanks peeps!
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