I have not kept you up on every turn that has gone on since his amputation, but here is where we are after another taking of two more inches off about 6 weeks after the original surgery.
Hi everyone,
Just heard from Randy a few minutes ago and he had the MRI last night and it confirmed the MRSA and the choice he has made instead of 10 days of antibiotics and shaving the bone back (another surgery), he is going to use the Hyperbaric Chamber and each day a home health nurse will go to his house and give him IV antibiotics. This will be everyday for 8 weeks. Like he said they took an additional 2" off last time and it didn’t help so unless it’s was going to kill him he wanted this method of dealing with the MRSA.
The MRSA has been his trouble the entire time since the amputation and hopefully this will get rid of it and then he will heal properly.
Thank you all for your prayers and support,
Skip
Well it has changed yet again. From yesterday morning until they got so sit down with the Doctor there in Tampa. Why no one did a MRI before now I just don’t know. Also why all the Doctors in BAMC missed this is really making me scratch my head. I guess maybe the fact he has a lot of shrapnel in his body would have kept them from wanting to do an MRI, but the Doctor in Tampa did one so just don’t know.
The Doctor in Tampa told them yesterday afternoon that his problem is osteomyelitis (infection of bone or bone marrow) and has been a lot of his trouble for a long time. This is why all the pain in his lower left leg when the nerves were dead there. All the way back to his first stay in BAMC he has probably has this and it is why the first two surgeries on his leg didn’t heal right.
The real shame is much of his troubles could have been taken care of if they would have just looked for this, but they didn’t even when they couldn’t tell them why he was having so much trouble all along with healing. Even back when they were looking at nerve graphs they didn’t and one reason was they couldn’t explain why he had so much pain in his ankle area when the nerve was dead there.
So now it looks like one more surgery for him after some treatment with IV antibiotics.
Randy and the rest of your family is in our thoughts. He’s really been through an ordeal but his strength, character and the support of you and the rest of your family will help him fight his way back from this setback.
I haven’t posted in quite awhile and haven’t talked to you for about the same amount of time, but you and your family are in my prayers and will be regularly. Please keep us updated.
Sorry to hear that your son is having to go through all of this. I hope they finally got their act together. Randy and the family will be in my prayers.
Skip,
Prayer’s Continue For Randy and ALL of You!
I realize most of Us(the FAOL Family) are many miles away,But if there is anything any of us can do to Help
Just Holler!
We ARE HERE FOR YOU!
Bill and Jean
He has had a very hard time as he has had like 22 surgeries in the last 22 months and that is not counting the wound care he got like in Iraq when the weather was so bad they couldn’t fly him out of there for a few days. They did each day cut away the bad tissue and clean it up so that is not counting that kind of stuff which is technically a surgery too.
I just wish sometimes I could do it for him. I have had my share of really bad surgeries and know how it is so I feel a bit extra for him.