@Celle i love you're grandmother's saying, will remember it and use it!
@Kelpie it was scary, but I learned so much!
@Timetolive while I had been praying almost nonstop after being diagnosed with the infection, it was a Monday appt with Dr. P that made us rethink things. My incision was still seeping a lot, Dr. P was very concerned, stating that we may be looking at another surgery for Wednesday (that would've been Christmas Eve) and he could do another washout or take out my knee and put in an antibiotic spacer. I cried in the exam room and Dr. P left to check his schedule, (he really didn't handle me crying very well-he had told me in the hospital I would be in transition care for a week or two and stared at his feet while I wept) my friend who driven me talked about how and where I would recuperate with a spacer because I would only be allowed toe weight and with 13 stairs to climb to the main floor, my home would be nearly impossible. Dr. P came back in and said he would see me Thursday, Dec. 26, we'd make a decision that day and he could do the surgery Friday. I think he wanted to give me Christmas because Thanksgiving had been in the hospital.
My friend (Susan) and I stopped for lunch and before we even ordered sat down to begin praying. We prayed that the medicine would do it's job and go right to the infection. One problem for me is that I have heavy legs with a lot of fatty tissue. Fatty tissue doesn't have as many veins (whatever) to carry the medicine to the infection. I also prayed that if a spacer was what God wanted that I'd be able to deal with it. So we prayed specifically, where as before I had just prayed to be healed. I also put out a Facebook post asking everyone to pray and what to pray for exactly and a global e-mail to my school asking for the same thing. I am very transparent individual, long before it became the "in" word. I claimed a verse every time I prayed and used it in my FB posts, Ephesians 3:20 "He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to His power". I prayed a lot, almost hourly and when I'd wake up in the middle of the night because I couldn't sleep, I prayed then. Facebook as huge and I kept people updated there as well.
Each day from Monday until Thursday the seeping was less. On Christmas Day morning it was down to 2 spots, one the size of a quarter and another the size of a dime. Three days before the bandage was soaked through and I was changing it several times a day. Thursday morning came with my 8:00 appt with Dr. P and my bandage was clean, not a spot of pus. I believe we "rowed to shore, the Lord and I". In those three days I had come to accept that if I needed another surgery that it as God's plan and I could do it. But the seeping at stopped and didn't start again. Dr. P was shocked and as I said before asked what I was doing differently and he encouraged us (Susan and my dad were there) to continue to pray, told me I could shower and take the imbolizer off when I was elevating.
So now I had a Christmas miracle and proclaimed it to everyone who I asked to pray. My knee totally changed in 4 days. Two years later I still get very emotional thinking of what happened, it was clearly God's hand and I learned so much. So there's the long answer to your question. God is good all the time.
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) continue and the Flagyl is causing me to have terrible headaches at night. Like someone stabbing me all over in the head. It frightens me enough that I want to stop the antibiotic, but then I worry if I had C-Diff, I would not be defeating it. I stepped out of the shower this morning and my good leg's foot had a sharp pain and now IT hurts! This is getting embarrassing. I selfishly pray for myself as I pray for others. It just seems my prayers are going unheard. Then, I read or hear of other's problems and realize how little I have to complain about. 
I am so tired too and I don't do 1/4 of what you do! Losing weight is hard. Very hard - especially when you are limited physically. I aggravated with Time Warner cable AGAIN today - to no avail. I hope you have a nice evening!
