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NFL Notes: Brady undergoes more operations on knee (Antibiotic resistant infection?)
Houston Chronicle ^ | Oct. 23, 2008, 8:51PM | Staff

Posted on 10/24/2008 12:05:41 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative

New England

Tom Brady has undergone two more procedures to clean out infection on his surgically repaired knee, the Boston Herald reported. The newspaper said Brady is on a six-week course of intravenous antibiotics and will have follow-up exams at the clinic where he had the surgery.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
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To: Paleo Conservative

Is it possible he contracted MRSA while in the hospital?


21 posted on 10/24/2008 12:45:55 PM PDT by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: Paleo Conservative

My Son-i-L is in the middle of a bout w/ MRSA in a knee surgery site.
He has been fighting this since April.
Had the PICC line removed last week after 6 wks. of treatment. He has been wearing a vacuum device for months, looks like a fanny pack.

Infection is still there, in the bone now.

Read in the thread about Allimax. Will tell him about it.


22 posted on 10/24/2008 12:52:02 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Last year I had a laminectomy, the low-grade fever I ran post-op was brushed off, "You need to use your spirometer" (the plastic doodad to measure inspiration) every hour." Sent home, luckily for me, my mother was staying with me, a retired nurse. When I leaked a tremendous amount of fluid from the wound site and my temp went sky high, she recognized I was in serious trouble. I ended up with emergency surgery because I had been cooking an enormous staph infection at the surgical site, the MRI showed it was "huge, was compromising the Dural Sac and had begun tunneling" according to the neurosurgeon. After that second surgery, I was on 24-hour I.V. nafcillan for 8 weeks, followed by 2 weeks of oral antibiotics.

If my mom hadn't been with me, if I hadn't leaked that fluid, I would have died from the infection, toxic shock, simple old-fashioned blood poisoning. I saw last night that Brady's surgeon decision is being questioned, as though that would have made some difference. Doubt it, considering Manning got a post-op infection also, same as you and me. That is an unfair blame to be laying on Brady, terribly cruel, considering the rest of what he's having to deal with.

23 posted on 10/24/2008 1:01:38 PM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: TommyDale
Is it possible he contracted MRSA while in the hospital?

Not only is it possible but most likely. Doctors are the WORST are wound care procedure.
24 posted on 10/24/2008 1:04:23 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: Paleo Conservative

A real man would play through the pain.


25 posted on 10/24/2008 1:05:11 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: isom35

.................cant Gisele kiss it and make it all better?
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I guess that she’ll have to be in the top position for awhile!


26 posted on 10/24/2008 1:08:28 PM PDT by aShepard (Loose lips Sink ships)
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To: MozarkDawg

I agree man, everybody joking about a his infection is heartless, somebody it will be thier a@# on the line and they wont be laughing. This just points out how prevalent the super germs are. If they made surgical instruments out of silver this would not happen and they know it (and used silver solutions to clean). The staph is growing on the steel beems inside the hospitals walls, it’s prolific and they know it, yet they keep building hospitals the same way.


27 posted on 10/24/2008 1:09:01 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: Paleo Conservative

He should have had Dr. Andrews from the beginning.


28 posted on 10/24/2008 1:14:15 PM PDT by petitfour
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The staph is growing on the steel beems inside the hospitals walls, it’s prolific and they know it, yet they keep building hospitals the same way.

My mom has a theory that it's coming through the vents, the a/c ducts, etc. What really got her angry, she had been a neurosurgical nurse for the last 19 of her more than 40 as an RN, was to have had my nurses not do simple blood work when I kept running the fever instead of blowing it off. They would have caught the infection early on, I would not have needed the emergency op, would not have been in the danger I was.

29 posted on 10/24/2008 1:19:17 PM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: Alberta's Child

Good memory!! It was a friend’s son who contracted a fungal infection in his knee from a minor cut while in the barn. Very traumatic - lost use of the knee and stunted the growth of the leg. The good news is that he was the first known case to ever survive the illness.


30 posted on 10/24/2008 1:52:01 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
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To: JMack

Oh. Does Tom have elbow problems now? Or is Andrews an infection specialist?

Where do you get your information???????


32 posted on 10/25/2008 9:15:32 AM PDT by petitfour
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