HELP! Broke body bolt

[legacy_etu]

Yeah, even the infectious disease docs were pretty confused as to why the particular pathogens I had were there. I think there were 3 bacteria that infiltrated, likely during initial surgery, one was a form of staph. It was heavy for sure. the first 4 weeks were daily (or maybe twice daily) full doses of diptomycin and vancomycin, then home injections for 9 weeks. But get this, because my detailed oriented brain, I noticed the vials (preloaded syringes actually) were compromised with some type of super tiny (like 0.5mm)...thing. They were coming directly from the medicine makers already contaminated. Fortunately I saw it JUST as that little piece went into the tip of the syringe so I was able to get it out before going into my heart. It took 4 full replacement sets of vials to finally get uncontaminated ones. My best guess is they were 'plugs'. you know sometimes meds are in a glass vial with a rubber stopper and you put the needle through the rubber stopper to pull in meds to be injected. Well I think a bit of that rubber got forced into the needle and thus contaminated the meds. But every spring and 4 sets (7 per set)??? Each syringe was something like $3200 bucks, thankfully the VA took care of that! Who knows how many pieces of rubber are floating around my body that were not caught the first 4 weeks in the ER..... And people wonder why I have trust issues.... Good news is the dura healed well from the initial opening of surgery 1 so that nice lol. It's interesting you mention the tooth. My dad had a coworker with a bad tooth. Instead of getting it fixed he chose to go on his work trip to Texas (from Seattle) and deal with it when he got home. Well he was found dead in the hotel room. Apparently the reduced atmospheric pressure of being in the plane allowed the infection in his tooth to get into his blood, and there was no coming back from that. So I take teeth problems serious now. As for WBC....for me, there was no nothing. All blood tests were normal (except unknown liver problems probably due to contaminates from the desert). I have a super high pain tolerance and medicine does not work on me like it normally does most others. I even did a MRI every 6 months post first surgery for 3 years. it showed some inflammation but everyone thought it was scar tissue. What did I know...I'm not a doctor. Only when it opened and started oozing did I realize something wasn't right. Still took several years of that for someone to finally know what to do. So for several years I was just straight up oozing staph and other bacteria all over the place. Super lucky it didn't spread.

Wow man. Sorry you had to deal with all that and for so long too. Blood infections are no joke. I lost my daughter to sepsis when she was 10. Within 24 hrs of feeling lousy she was gone......

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[Rusty PW]

I have never heard about this precaution before. Wow. Did your orthopedic surgeon warn you about the dangers of the dentist? I know many people with implants and have never heard of this....

Yea....it was my ortho who told me.

 

[MSFTMatt]

UPDATE: truck is repaired. I don’t have pics of the repair steps but they ended up going through the floor boards. The cut rectangular hole but only 3 sides about 4”x2”. They then peeled those sections back and were able to extract the bolts. To fix the fix they folded the peeled ba k section back over, put seem sealer around the cuts and then riveted another slightly larger piece of metal over it and more seam sealer to prevent water intrusion. And painted all the bare metal of course. Cost was $953. Not cheap but cheaper than more damage and this repair is waaaaay outside my wheelhouse. If anyone in the CA central coast needs this repair the guys at Street Scene in Watsonville got me in quick and did a solid repair.

 

[MSFTMatt]

And they installed the sliders

 

[Blade1668]

OMG. That's heavy.
Antibiotics and other antibacterials are crazy nasty. The stuff they had me on after the gangrenous gallbladder fun was horrible. It changed my sense of taste, smell, fell, pretty much everything. Bacteria and infection in the area of the head are nothing to mess with. Heck, an abscess on an upper tooth root can kill you. Didn't they catch something in a CBC - like white blood cell counts being elevated, showing infection somewhere?

Since this thread is already all over the place..
Oh the Gallbladder one can happen fast and in a hurry.... My wonderful experience with it was started 20 March 2023. I'm a survivor of having a rapid onset of gallbladder infection, gangrene and ruptured. The onset I had was in 3 days or less, I went down in my driveway walking out to drive to ER. Ended up dialing 911 as my body was shutting down. Multiple IV's of antibiotics and morphine, emergency surgery scheduled for first in morning then (pushed back to later for me to stabilize). The hospital kept my sister on phone during the procedure. The surgeon later told me at my follow up appointment " He was surprised by me making it through surgery".

So My "Pubic Service Announcement" is if your feeling sick and having stomach pains out of the blue is to get your ass to hospital E.R. don't wait 24 hours thinking it might be something you ate. It seems it's the little things that will kill you and as you get older have massive effect.

Now back on track of this post.

 

[Blade1668]

UPDATE: truck is repaired. I don’t have pics of the repair steps but they ended up going through the floor boards. The cut rectangular hole but only 3 sides about 4”x2”. They then peeled those sections back and were able to extract the bolts. To fix the fix they folded the peeled ba k section back over, put seem sealer around the cuts and then riveted another slightly larger piece of metal over it and more seam sealer to prevent water intrusion. And painted all the bare metal of course. Cost was $953. Not cheap but cheaper than more damage and this repair is waaaaay outside my wheelhouse. If anyone in the CA central coast needs this repair the guys at Street Scene in Watsonville got me in quick and did a solid repair.

Glad to read a good conclusion sad on the cost though. But that's looking good.

 

[TurboChris]

Expensive repair, been there lol. But it's done and that's good!

 

[MSFTMatt]

Definitely a costly experience but could have been worse. Im just happy it’s done. Headed to the Sierra for a week Friday to do trails and camp and that was in limbo up until yesterday.

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