Just thought I'd let you know what's been going on in our lives (in case you've been on a different planet or country). December 24th I broke my left leg and shattered my ankle on the same leg. I had surgery Christmas day around noon. As you can see, they put a plate and a bunch of screws in my leg (18?). The plate was to hold the bone in place and the screws on the bottom were to fill in the holes in my ankle, ya know since it SHATTERED! I was thinkin', "I'll be walking again in 6 weeks and everything will back to normal." WRONG! I was on crutches until the middle of June, got down to one crutch the last couple of weeks. After a couple of months when my doctor realized it wasn't healing properly, he decided to send me to an infectious disease doctor who told me I had a bone infection. Great.
This infect. dis. dr. told me that I had to take doxocyclin twice a day for 6 months, or get an antibiotic drip for 6 weeks, which is super expensive. Oh by the way, we didn't have ANY health insurance and didn't have a way of paying for any of this except through monthly payments which are eating us alive now, but it's getting better now that I'm able to work a little and Sarah has a full time job, but I'll get back to that in a minute.
So we're trying to find a way to pay for this antibiotic drip but never get enough funds for it but are very thankful to those who did try to help. Wow this is all over the place.
The Dr. never put a cast on my leg, just a splint and I had to get that changed twice a month for a couple of months. I had these wounds on my leg that Sarah had to dress twice a day then later once a day. I also had to soak my foot in bleach for a couple of weeks everynight to get all of the dead skin off.
Oh, I couldn't get my leg wet so Sarah had to put it in a plastic bag and get me a chair to sit in everytime I took a bath over at mom's house.
(I'll have to continue this later, my awesome wife is home from her "dangerous" library job and I'm going to eat lunch with her, so there)
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