Copy and pasted from my post on the message board: Its been a very long day. It is still Thursday to me. Linda and I took mom to the Bone Doctor today. It was suppose to be the 6 week check up. Well, They x-rayed her and checked her over. The MRSA is back again. Next week we take her to an Infectious Disease Doctor in Springfield. They will devise a more thorough plan to get it out of her system, what antibiotics to try and the doses etc. She already did all them weeks on the vancomycin, all this strong antibiotics really do a number on a person. I hate to see her have to deal with this again. And even worse, you wont believe this, but….They got to take her entire knee replacement out. Yep the entire thing. And they wont put it back in till they are sure it is out of her system. So that should be another 6 weeks. And mom is 193 lbs right now (she has lost 25 lbs the last 2 months. But what worries us, is They plan on sending her home, and we dont mind one bit taking care of her, I am just worried if we will be able to lift her since she wont have the support in her leg, and will be unable to put her weight on it. I guess we have alot to figure out in the next few weeks. She has already had 5 surgeries on that knee. One in fall of 2007, One in Nov 2008, 3 in Dec 2008 and now they say she will have atleast 3 more in the next month. It is unreal. The doctors visit was stressful, we were all in tears. Then we get her home and get her settled in her chair. It is a lift chair, so we figured she would be ok. And her boyfriend Basil was there too to take care of her. I got home about 6 pm. fixed dinner, got in my pjs. Then Linda called at about 8:30pm. She had called mom to check on her, and mom had been trying to get out of her chair for about 2 hours. Basil is a little guy and couldnt lift her. So Linda and I go over there. Get mom up, she couldnt walk. Brought the commode in to her. Changed her clothes and all. She refused to go to the hospital. So we called the doctors cell phone, and he told us to give her some more pain pills and a muscle relaxer. We were trying to get her back into the chair, when, Praise the Lord, my brother Steve showed up. He has been gone since October. He helped get her in the chair. Then Cindy showed up. SO if nothing else mom got all of her kids together in one place tonight. It is just so hard watching your mom go down hill like this. I kid you not, just a year ago, that woman was keeping right up with the rest of us. It seems like these last 3 months she has aged 10-15 years. Her anxiety level is through the roof. The infection is in her bones, and that causes pain too. I just ask for prayer for her, to strengthen and heal her, to calm her and prayer for us to be able to take care of her and be strong for her. I know this is a rambling post, but I am tired. Thanks for listening to me.