26CornerBlitz Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 (edited) @ProFootballTalk Daniel Fells could lose his foot to MRSA http://wp.me/p14QSB-9Sw4 via @RapSheet @RapSheet An update on #Giants TE Daniel Fells is posting soon. Best news: Docs believe they saved his foot from amputation. Could be home this week Edited October 19, 2015 by 26CornerBlitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 "Giants tight end Daniel Fells’s MRSA infection is so serious that he could have to have his foot amputated. The infection could turn out to be career-ending." Someone needs an editor. Anyway, pretty unusual even for MRSA, which is treatable. He need to be in the hyperbaric chamber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HamSandwhich Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Man, that's sad. Hope it's not as bad as they're saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outsidethebox Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Oh man, that stinks. I hope he can recover and resume his playing career. My prayers go out to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hapless Bills Fan Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 @ProFootballTalk Daniel Fells could lose his foot to MRSA http://wp.me/p14QSB-9Sw4 via @RapSheet Geez. At least he's getting the best of care. Being a Bills-centric bastard, I focused on this: "As a team, the Giants have also reacted, working with infectious disease specialists earlier in the week, and these experts defined protocols to follow in consultation with Duke Infection Control Outreach Network and others locally. Their locker room, training rooms and meetings rooms were scrubbed and sanitized and players were briefed on precautions and how to prevent the spread of MRSA. Meanwhile, Fells remains away from the team, waging his own fight." I hope the Bills scrubbed and santized their own guest locker facilities and have their own infection control procedures in place because that stuff travels much more easily than it leaves. Although it sounds like the doc injecting the cortisone into Fell's foot has a lot to answer for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 That's awful! Let's hope this is a case of the media trying to blow something up to get attention. If ever there was a good case for that, it's right here. Prayers out to this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Geez. At least he's getting the best of care. Being a Bills-centric bastard, I focused on this: "As a team, the Giants have also reacted, working with infectious disease specialists earlier in the week, and these experts defined protocols to follow in consultation with Duke Infection Control Outreach Network and others locally. Their locker room, training rooms and meetings rooms were scrubbed and sanitized and players were briefed on precautions and how to prevent the spread of MRSA. Meanwhile, Fells remains away from the team, waging his own fight." I hope the Bills scrubbed and santized their own guest locker facilities and have their own infection control procedures in place because that stuff travels much more easily than it leaves. Although it sounds like the doc injecting the cortisone into Fell's foot has a lot to answer for. Fells didn't make the trip to Buffalo. He also appears to have caught it during his foot surgery, outside the locker room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 I wonder if they will allow NFL players to use blade feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hapless Bills Fan Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 (edited) Fells didn't make the trip to Buffalo. He also appears to have caught it during his foot surgery, outside the locker room. Where did you get the "during his foot surgery" bit, Tom? What I saw is on NFL "The situation arose, the source said, when Fells suffered a toe injury, then an ankle injury. To treat it, Fells was given a cortisone shot. After a week of ankle and foot pain, Fells' wife took him to the emergency room on Oct. 2 with a 104-degree temperature. There, they found his ankle was infected with MRSA, a dangerous staph infection that is resistant to many antibiotics." The cortisone shot and the infection seem to have preceded the surgery? And cortisone shots to treat injury are often given by team doctors, at the facility. What concerns me is that the Giants and their equipment arrived at RWS as or before Fells was diagnosed with MRSA, but after the MRSA-infected Fells had spent a week presumably attending meetings and possibly working out and receiving treatment at their facility. As we know, the peak danger time for spreading an infection is while the person is infected, but doesn't know it yet and thus isn't isolated. Then we depend upon how good routine infection-control practices actually are, and generally speaking in most hospitals they kind of suck - I don't know about NFL locker rooms. "Giants tight end Daniel Fells’s MRSA infection is so serious that he could have to have his foot amputated. The infection could turn out to be career-ending." Someone needs an editor. Anyway, pretty unusual even for MRSA, which is treatable. He need to be in the hyperbaric chamber. It sounds unusual in that a source quoted by NFL.com reports it resulted from a cortisone injection. Normally MRSA is a skin infection, and treatable, but if somehow it got directly injected (or spread by injection) into toe and ankle joints that would be a different, and much more difficult, situation to treat. It does sound as though a hyperbaric, hyperoxic chamber would be potentially useful adjunct therapy. Edited October 11, 2015 by Hopeful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BADOLBILZ Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Geez. At least he's getting the best of care. Being a Bills-centric bastard, I focused on this: "As a team, the Giants have also reacted, working with infectious disease specialists earlier in the week, and these experts defined protocols to follow in consultation with Duke Infection Control Outreach Network and others locally. Their locker room, training rooms and meetings rooms were scrubbed and sanitized and players were briefed on precautions and how to prevent the spread of MRSA. Meanwhile, Fells remains away from the team, waging his own fight." I hope the Bills scrubbed and santized their own guest locker facilities and have their own infection control procedures in place because that stuff travels much more easily than it leaves. Although it sounds like the doc injecting the cortisone into Fell's foot has a lot to answer for. That stuff is nasty and the big problem is that people think scrubbing with sanitizing agents kill it and the truth is that you need to let the sanitizing agent stay in contact with the surface for 30 seconds to a minute to even hope kill it. Best hope is to wash it down and scrub it and then spray a foaming sanitizer on. People just aren't conditioned to clean like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Player Available Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 What is up with this crap. A friend in Buffalo and his wife both got it in the hospital. My Mom got a staph infection and almost lost her leg after a stent procedure. i don't remember this stuff when I was a kid and one would assume hospital OR protocols where not as good? is it all because of antibiotics? I feel sorry for the dude no matter who he plays for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfladave Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Staph infections are nasty especially MRSA! I had a staph infection just over 2 years ago on my lower spine. I had to have a partial removal of my L1 through L5 vertebrae removed. I spent 18 days in the hospital and another 3 months of 3 times a day IV antibiotic treatments theough a pic line. It sucked! MRSA is far worse. My cousin has had MRSA for over 7 years now. It has nearly killed him several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 (edited) If I were him I would stop messing around with these doctors and their anti-biotics that don't work and start taking massive doses of Oil of Oregano, Berberine, Olive Leaf and Grapeseed Extract, very potent natural antibiotics/anti-microbials that have no bacterial resistance due to them being natural and not man-made... Edited October 11, 2015 by matter2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Where did you get the "during his foot surgery" bit, Tom? What I saw is on NFL I guessed. Based on the timing of what was reported at the time. If I were him I would stop messing around with these doctors and their anti-biotics that don't work and start taking massive doses of Oil of Oregano, Berberine, Olive Leaf and Grapeseed Extract, very potent natural antibiotics/anti-microbials that have no bacterial resistance due to them being natural and not man-made... I just have witch doctors exorcise the evil spirits, myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 I had no idea he was injury prone. If he loses his foot will be have to go on IR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 @Giants "We dedicated this game to Daniel Fells and his family." - Coach Coughlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob's House Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 B-U-S-T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 B-U-S-T You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob's House Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. No excuses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 No excuses Never! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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