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Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Aug 31, 2019 | Replies (10)
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Replies to "Hi @gncellist and welcome to Connect. the pain you are experiencing must be so frustrating, and..."
Thank you. My doctors are saying nothing right now - we’re just in a holding pattern until the needle aspiration 2 weeks after the IV antibiotic course is done. And my surgeon says he doesn’t know when the custom joint will be ready; only that it’s being made. MeanwhileI’ve lost my whole summer - no swimming, no cycling, not even walks. AndI’m a cellist who can’t play the cello with the spacer (& is missing out on my summer concert series, of which I missed 2 of 4 concerts due to last year’s emergency surgery for the staph infection. This whole thing has shaken me to the core - surgery has never faxed me, but this terrifies me -all the more because I keep seeing stories of patients who had to have the spacer repeated 2 or more times or took years to have their infection eradicated.