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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
Generalized story, exact medical facts not known.True story as related second hand from mutual golf friends. story is marked as believable when told in golfing circles. . . 
Yes, i can understand your position. . she had had back issues while recovering from surgery in her boot, and finally the pain was diagnosed several months later as a spinal infection as the source of her back pain, admitted then and there into the hospital for IV for a several/many weeks.
As you well know, doctors diagnose and treat symptoms and health issues, regardless of source. Source is most often times unknown with certainty, therefore, doctors don't like to speculate on sources without data/facts. . . and its impossible to research situations like this to prove facts.
so from a medical point of view, you are correct. From a risk point of view, all surgeries carry risk, both immediate and longer term, and the risk increases as one ages, most likely exponentially, which was my only point. . regardless of medically proven or not. . regardless of direct or indirect affects. ..
as I ended with YMMV
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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Unless she had a post-op infection after her foot surgery, I can't fathom how that could have been the source of an infection elsewhere in the body...
But, like GE said... I hope she recovered from her spinal infection...
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Well, with the additional information we can speculate (repeat SPECULATE) a bit more:
It seems her problems began in the immediate post-op period, and her back pain may have been attributed to hobbling around on crutches with a boot on. So, let's SPECULATE that for whatever reason she actually had some Staph Aureus seeded into her bloodstream. This could be the precipitating factor for an infection such as a discitis or even a vertebral osteomyelitis, and it would not be unusual that the correct diagnosis isn't made until a few months later, especially if she didn't have classic symptoms of an infection.
And then again, it still might be unrelated.....