Post by bonniej2 on Mar 30, 2007 16:44:18 GMT -5
OK I'm looking for reasons to say the glass is half full today because I shattered my laptop screen. I didn't have to look far for some positive news and I thought I'd share it.
My uncle has battled rheumatoid arthritis for 50 years, and had several joints replaced over the years. Last fall he somehow got a staph infection and it settled in his artificial joints. (This really is a good story, just gruesome at the beginning.) Every other week I was getting the bad news - first an elbow and the rod that went to his shoulder had to be removed, then a hip, then the other hip, then a knee. He was sitting in the hospital fighting the infection. Somehow it didn't settle in the last remaining artificial joint, but they could only put spacers in the place of the joints until the infection was truly gone. It was Christmas time by now.
(He went to Iowa, lives in Washington state now, but still a fan.)
The spacers in the hip did have some kind of a joint in them, so he was able to sit and move a bit. He went to a rehab place until February, then home just waiting to get the final OK on the infection and then scheduled for new parts.
The good news??? Yesterday he got the first of his parts - the knee. His surgery went well and my aunt said he looked so much better than after the last few surgeries. Next stop - a new hip two weeks from now.
I will not moan about my computer.
My uncle has battled rheumatoid arthritis for 50 years, and had several joints replaced over the years. Last fall he somehow got a staph infection and it settled in his artificial joints. (This really is a good story, just gruesome at the beginning.) Every other week I was getting the bad news - first an elbow and the rod that went to his shoulder had to be removed, then a hip, then the other hip, then a knee. He was sitting in the hospital fighting the infection. Somehow it didn't settle in the last remaining artificial joint, but they could only put spacers in the place of the joints until the infection was truly gone. It was Christmas time by now.
(He went to Iowa, lives in Washington state now, but still a fan.)
The spacers in the hip did have some kind of a joint in them, so he was able to sit and move a bit. He went to a rehab place until February, then home just waiting to get the final OK on the infection and then scheduled for new parts.
The good news??? Yesterday he got the first of his parts - the knee. His surgery went well and my aunt said he looked so much better than after the last few surgeries. Next stop - a new hip two weeks from now.
I will not moan about my computer.
