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Maybe every break shouldn't be followed with a freakin sugery. How many times have we heard about the ol staph infection? Just let em cut and screw in bolts. I swear it's the best way......

I heard he was in a bad way. Haven't seen an update. Football and a career in it start to mean little to nothing at all...

Man, I don't understand how they are unable to disinfect the area well enough to eliminate staph. Staph is on skin, and clothing, and just about everything. Wounds, especially surgical wounds, need to be cleaned and bandaged to keep staph bacteria out. Clothes need to be washed in hot water, and in the sanitizing cycle, if available.

Some displaced breaks do require pins and screws to restore stability to the bone, and proper healing. There really is no way around it sometimes.

He had a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula.

For many years, many doctors fell into a habit of prescribing the best available antibiotics for every bacterial infection they encountered. It was a shortcut to taking a culture, determining the appropriate antibiotic for that strain, and prescribing accordingly. It was just quicker and easier to go with the best available. Another trend was sick people who didn't even go to the doctor, they had antibiotics left over from previous illness and just took what was on hand.

The combination of those 2 trends led to a disastrous consequence. Strains of staph developed that are immune to the best available antibiotics. These are known collectively as MRSA. Hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, military bases, and locker rooms are the most likely places where MRSA can grow. Once someone is infected, it's really hard, sometimes impossible to cure the infection. It's ugly and as scary as it gets.

Add to that the fact that Drug manufacturers refuse to address the antibiotic crisis because the profit margins aren't large enough.

j/c:

I just hope Alex Smith is okay and no more complications arise. He's a good dude and I wish him nothing him but the best.

There are some pretty horrible staph bacteria that live in peoples' noses, including MRSA. In the nose, or on the skin, it usually doesn't create a problem, unless the skin barrier is breached. The hospital should test for it, and then, if present, give the patient a salve to put inside his/her nose. That keeps the patient from spreading it to the wound area by inadvertently touching their nose/face, and spreading it to their wound when changing bandages.

I had 2 full pages of home instructions for care of the arthroscopic insertion points., including "get your butt to the ER" instructions if certain things happened.

I feel very bad for him ... really hoping he can recover

I have a weird bump on my back that is red and very tender to touch. Driving a car is painful due to it. I'm taking staph and MRSA meds for it now and hope it can clear up soon...

make sure it's not a cyst ... i had one of those and it KILLED