<p>So happy you are ok!</p>
<p>So sorry for your ordeal and hoping you are at that point where you can enjoy your recovery - take it slowly, enjoy the spring air, pet and maybe even a significant other (optional).</p>
<p>A little perspective: when I graduated from nursing school in 1975, I worked on a renal transplant unit. There was a patient who was there for months! Rejections, infections, the poor guy! I think of him when the going gets rough.</p>
<p>Fauxmaven, I am so sorry you went through that. Post op infections are horrible (been there before and it was worse than the surgery itself) I hope you are well on the mend and enjoying being in your own bed in your own home. Wishing you a good holiday!</p>
<p>I feel your pain, fauxmaven. Same thing happened to me after ankle surgery–I got a staph infection. Did get rid of it after IV antibiotics. Good luck!</p>
<p>Hope you are feeling even better today! Wishing you continued, rapid, improvement!</p>
<p>I hope each day finds you feeling stronger and better!</p>
<p>I am so sorry to hear you had/have to go through this. Surguries are bad enough by themselves. Hope you feel a little better and stronger each day.</p>
<p>I am still on antibiotics- 1 once a day , 1 3 x a day . The post surgical infection is way worse than the surgery . I am still waterlogged from all that IV fluid and weak ,but so happy to be home . So glad my D took the semester off ! I really needed her cheering me along every day . She is so happy to have gotten a new House for Sept . In the end ,moving off campus was not a good idea ,but she had to find out for herself .( For those of you following another long saga about Sweden and the boyfriend . )</p>
<p>Fauxmaven - so sorry to hear of your ordeal, but happy that you are home (and enjoying your daughter as well). I think sometimes we take good outcomes in medicine for granted until something goes wrong - then we realize just how vulnerable we are. Hope the rest of your recovery goes quickly and smoothly. </p>
<p>It IS a good sign that you are well enough to post!!!</p>
<p>Glad to hear you are well enough to complain – a healthy sign!! Have you watched season 1 and 2 of Downton Abbey? That’s a good one for convalescence and I’ll bet your daughter would enjoy watching it with you. Take care and let us know how you get on.</p>
<p>faux–I have a question. Did your IV antibiotics burn going in? I have had IV antibiotics a few times, and sometimes I get something that burns, especially if they let the drip run pretty fast. I found it quite unpleasant.</p>
<p>Fauxmaven, just wanted to tell you I am thinking about you. Sorry you had such an ordeal. Here’s hoping for smooth sailing through the rest of the recovery.</p>
<p>During my 6 weeks at home I watched all of Downton Abbey and Arrested Development. Both very entertaining.</p>
<p>Glad to hear you are doing better!</p>
<p>Skyhook, I had IV antibiotics for a couple of weeks for meningitis, they had to keep moving the IV line because it burned so much, until I got a PICC line inserted. I have also been very fortunate to have a neurosurgeon who insists that his patients get private rooms.</p>
<p>I hope you’re letting everyone take care of you, fauxmaven. This it the time to be Queen-for-a-month.</p>
<p>Thoughts and prayers fauxmaven!</p>