I'm now home again after just over a week in hospital. The infection was all through the implant which has now been completely removed. So I now only have a spacer for a shoulder. I have a sling on the left arm and a pravena attached to the shoulder, a pick with a baxter bottle which has to be changed daily on the right. I am on the intravenous antibiotics for at least another week, and then tablets long term. The current plan is to review in 3 months, and then decide if they do another implant, either full or partial, or just leave me with the spacer.
My skiing trip in January is now off.
