Outpatient Hip Replacement -- You Never Know!

[Rifletom]

Evan, sorry to learn about this. Man, you've been thru the ringer! Glad to know you're doing better. Prayers sent your way.
Just get thru third buddy. I'll be looking for updates. Take care Evan.

[JEBar]

I just got off the phone with Evan .... he's undergoing the infusion of the new antibiotic as this is being typed .... he is as upbeat as ever and we are making plans to go out and eat with him later this evening .... we sure hope this one takes care of whatever variety of bugs that are causing his infection

[Lyman]

Prayers for a speedy recovery. I know a guy that went through this exact same thing but with a knee surgery. It took a while but they got him straightened out.
Just have to find the right drug to knock the infection out. I went the other route with my knee surgery and had a blood clot. Sometimes it seems there is no winning
with this stuff.

[Shakey Jake]

Hope they get it under control for you Evan. Thanks for keeping us informed.
Jake

[daytime dave]

Get better soon my friend.

[JEBar]

we once again met Evan for dinner, this time at the Lee's Summit Grill ===> https://www.summitgrillkc.com/lees-summit-mo .... he had a very busy day that included an IV of a new antibiotic .... we are happy to report that he appeared to come be doing OK

[markiver54]

Lookn' great there Evan! Hang in there my friend!

[ESquared]

As always, thanks for all your good wishes and advice. I'll take everything I can get!

The good news is, for all of this, I feel pretty darn good and the hip pain is minimal. BUT, there's something going on behind the scenes in the bloodwork that the docs don't like, so we'll keep swatting away at it until we get it under control.

Back to work at Parks and Rec this afternoon. Looking forward to seeing some of my co-workers and Parks' "patrons" as we call them.

[Shakey Jake]

Glad to hear! Once they get the pathology they'll get the needed antibiotic.
Jake

[PatientWolf]

Wow. Hang in there ESquared. I went in 2 weeks ago and got the diagnosis that it’s up to me when I should schedule my R hip replacement. Now I’m thinking I may just push it out a little longer (and still healing from the Rotator Cuff surgery).

Praying you get well soon!

[ESquared]

Wow. Hang in there ESquared. I went in 2 weeks ago and got the diagnosis that it’s up to me when I should schedule my R hip replacement. Now I’m thinking I may just push it out a little longer (and still healing from the Rotator Cuff surgery).

Praying you get well soon!

Thanks very much. Rotator cuff is notoriously difficult in terms of recovery under great circumstances, so getting past that is probably a good idea.

However, don't let my crazy story make you fear the hip (mine was the Right as well), as they're one of the easier joints to do, both surgically and recovery-wise. I wish now I'd done mine about 5 years ago.

Hope your shoulder continues to do well for you!

[Rifletom]

You hang in there Evan. I'm tellin ya, getting old ain't for lightweights. I know.

[JEBar]

we are back home and the trip already seems like it happened sometime in the distant past .... we speak of you often and do hope your recovery is going well .... did they find the name of the bug ..

[BigAl52]

Ya Evan how bout an update here them bugs dead yet or you still messing around with them.

[ESquared]

Well, I officially have (or had?) a "Culture Negative Infection," which is Doc Talk for "we can't figure out what it is." Nothing EVER grew in the lab from the pre-Op and surgical samples they took.

My Infectious Disease Doc says he might see "two cases per year" like this, where clearly the body reacted as if it were infected, but nothing was ever pin-pointed as to cause. Kinda like where we started, with WAY <1% chance of this outcome.

So, even though he doesn't know what he's fighting, and even though all my bloodwork is coming back looking very normal, he'll be keeping me on the Daptomycin for another 3+ weeks, to be followed by oral antibiotics for a couple more weeks.

All of which is fine by me. Had it been MRSA, I'd be looking at a complete re-do, with a much more complicated course of treatment, none of which is pretty; "life-changing" is the way Dr. Sawbones keeps referring to a total hip replacement do-over.

So, for now, it's onward and upward with "better living through chemistry"!!

[BigAl52]

Good news then. Hope it all stays that way.

[Shakey Jake]

Hope things stay on the "up and up". Hang in there!
Jake

[JEBar]

per Spock, "Fascinating" .... hopefully they will get it knocked out rather quickly

[markiver54]

Evan,
Let's hope this, like Covid just goes away eventually. I do think of you often and hope and pray that this gets resolved. Sounds very peculiar, but glad you are feeling ok!
Inspired by Jim's Spock comment, " Live Long and Prosper "

[JEBar]

its been about a month since we last checked in .... how is your recovery coming along ...