Alex Smith suffering serious complications.
 

[Bickel] Hearing from several different people over last few days that Alex Smith is having devastating complications from his broken leg surgery battling infection. Supposedly he's had multiple surgeries to try to combat infection. Chances of him playing again in real jeaopardy.


This ****ing sucks.

That sucks.

Man that is horrible news. Thoughts and Prayers for the guy.

Hate hearing that

Holy damn. Alex is a good person. Hope he gets well and retires in good health.

Man...hurry up and nuke that guy with every antibiotic in existence!
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Ugh. That's not good.

That's absolutely horrifying.

Damn. Hope he gets through this ok

That shit can get really wonky really fast.

We had some crazy shit come thru the Oral Surgery dep at the dental school when I was there.

Really sad to hear. He's a really good guy.

Compound fractures are a bitch for that very reason. I hadn't heard if the bone broke the skin but it sure sounds like it. Evidently that's incredibly common anytime there's an actual compound fracture and the bone is exposed to all the shit we have floating around in the air.

Football is a cruel mistress, man.

Awful to hear.

I know Gronk had some similar issues with his arm and they got that figured out

Damn. Hope he recovers fully.

He may not play again but man is he rich.

Had a friend younger than me that died because they couldn't get what started as a minor infection under control. She was at one of the best hospitals in the area.

This shit could cost him his leg, or his life.

Alex Smith has a guaranteed salary of $71 million. That should buy the best doctors on the planet. Best Wishes to Alex Smith and his recovery.

Not sure what "partial reconstruction" of the leg is, but doesn't sound great.

https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/artic...12680_27941813

I hope Alex makes a speedy and full recovery, a great dude for sure.

**** that would be horrible. Best wishes to Alex.

Get well soon sir.

Dude has the worst luck with surgeries.

hospitals are giant germ factories.

sucks

He just needs to concentrate on getting well. He is well enough off he could comfortably retire. Hoping for good health for him, from here on out

This is very sad. Alex is by all accounts a great guy. Has a foundation to get kids off to college back in his home town of San Diego, and was a good team mate and mentor during his time here in KC. I don't know if he'll ever play again, but I hope they can heal him to the point where he can walk and enjoy raising his kids pain free. I hope he has a great life, and that being a football player will be just one chapter of it.

It's pretty maddening how some treat infections. I get people in my office all the time with an abscess that's draining and they'll just "well, it doesn't hurt I'll come back when it hurts".

Ok, when it crosses facial planes and gets in your brain, don't call me. Go ahead and go to the ER.

That's ****ed up

whoa

can you elaborate

this sounds really interesting

Ban Clay from the thread before he gives us shit karma and makes us lose a game... again.

man that REALLY sucks for him. terrible

Sorry to hear that. Sucks big time

My wife started talking about that stuff when the babies were born. "Oh yeah, they can get a little abscess or something and become vegetables...."

"Wait...what the ****?! And what do you mean jaundice can short circuit their brains? How the hell did anyone survive infancy 300 years ago?!?"

{Checks infant mortality rates in the 17th century...} Ah....they didn't.

Sucks to hear this about any player, fortunately hes collected over $140M in career earnings, his family is well taken care of if he cant suit up again.

Never want to hear those things. Get well soon.
Not about the money at that point. It is about your life.

This x 1000

Yeah, I have similar thoughts over immunizations, but that's not for this thread. LOL.

These situations like Alex are scary, but usually they can get it under control.

I've had to place drains in peoples neck and take out a gallon of shit because they didn't think that toothache was that big of a deal, then they get to go spend a month in the hospital.

No thanks. I'll stick to my scraping and drill and fill and let the oral surgeons deal with that shit.

I'm sure he'll be along soon to cheer this new development as well

I was never a fan, but wanted him to do well for the Chiefs when he was on the team. This is bad though. I wouldn't wish that injury or the infection on anyone but the truly evil.

Hope he recovers fully.

Aw damn.. that sucks for anyone. I am a fan of his; he always seemed like a great, genuine guy. He and his family are in my thoughts and prayers for sure.

OMG. Not good. My uncle had something similar. Ended up have his leg amputated.

Get well Alex.

Shit man.

Wish the guy the best.

Infection can get ****ing nasty ****ing quick.

My prayers for a fast and full recovery. Football doesn't even enter the picture here. My concern is for Alex the human being; and he's a damn good one.

Hope he has a speedy recovery. Hate hearing this.

Hang in there Alex, I know all to we'll how leg infections can cause issues!

Best of luck and prayers, Godspeed!

Shit, I hope he gets better soon. That’s awful.

Awful news. Such a great guy. Great teammate.

While Smith had his limits, what i always appreciated with him is that he was always available to play. Rarely hurt. Sucks to see him have such a good run here, and not be able to continue it in Washington.

Lower body injuries are such a bitch; all that puss and blood and shit just settles into your feet and your heart does a lousy job of getting circulation down there.

I'm sure he's just stuck in that hospital bed with his foot above his head about 23 hours/day. And all he can do is sit there, be in pain and wait. That just has to be brutal as hell.

****, hope Alex makes it through

That sucks

Praying for Alex and his family. This is just horrible to hear.

Always liked Alex. Rooting for him to pull through.

Damn. Rooting for him. Hate seeing this.

Dangit, just awful to hear this. I really hope he can pull out of it.

People die from stuff like this. Hope it all turns out okay for him.

I wanted Mahomes in there but I never wanted something like this to happen to the guy,

Horrible. He's just class act. Always a CHIEF!
ALWAYS!

Andy Reid channels his inner Knute Rockne and gives a “Win one for the Gipper” speech in tribute to Alex Smith.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlexSmith?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AlexSmith</a><br>Infection always a worry with open fracture (where bone pokes thru skin from inside out), but with quick surgical action and antibiotics, osteomyelitis is rarely a long term complication. <a href="https://t.co/u4YAsnjfkR">https://t.co/u4YAsnjfkR</a></p>&mdash; David J. Chao, MD (@ProFootballDoc) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProFootballDoc/status/1070716037082083337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Awful. Infection is never good. They need to get that shit under control before the metal goes in or there could be long term issues

Who the **** down voted all of the positive thoughts in this thread? Bad, very bad, form!

He was a model teammate, and all around great guy... best wishes for a speedy recovery

That's what I was wondering. Like every single comment, LOL.

It was a compound fracture, which increases the likelihood of osteomyelitis, as well as the introduction of gram negative bugs. He's no doubt getting bombarded.

He probably has the world's worst diarrhea right now.
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Depends on what you mean by long term. If he has osteo, he'll get at least six weeks of IV antibiotics. If they already placed hardware, his infection risk goes up substantially because the surfaces are, for lack of a better term, sticky.

We had a family member die two days ago from this exact thing. Compound fracture, screwed back together, got infected and advanced into septic shock.

Humans are germ factories. There are more bacteria in and on your body than human cells.

**** WWE Gronk and his elbow drops in a cast.

Damn. That sucks. Wish him all the best.

That's too bad, Alex Smith is a good guy. At this point, i just hope that he can walk normally and live a relatively pain-free life. I think his career is done. :(

In the dental field they've started working with different coatings for implants to try and reduce this. Usually dental follows medical so I'm guessing they're doing it there as well.

Either way, it's a long recovery.

Damn dude, that sucks.

Were they by chance diabetic as well?

Nope. And only 46 years old. Not a close family member and I don't know all the details. I can only assume that we wasn't paying close enough attention to the warning signs.

[Rapoport] More on #Redskins QB Alex Smith: He’s had several procedures, sources say, and @MikeGarafolo adds they are removing tissue to clear the infection. Smith still approaches this with optimism about playing. Note: His hospital room was next to Colt McCoy’s during McCoy’s 1-night stay

The infection gets into the blood, you are in real, don't fool around danger to your life. Even if your already in a hospital like Alex, its not a guarantee that you make it. But, I dont see anything, anywhere that he's septic yet.

Gram negative bacteremia can kill you in 12 hours.

My wife's grandpa somehow contracted sepsis about 6 months ago (he's 86 so it could have come from anywhere) and he was in ICU for 3 weeks and the hospital proper for 4 more.

You don't mess around with it and I can only assume that's what happened with my distant family member is that he ignored the initial infection associated with the break/repair and let it go too long, until it was too late.

Yep. Chemical byproducts from bacterial consumption and reproduction are poisonous to the body.

They can be going in for serial I&D of the wound site without him having systemic sequelae.

Thoughts and prayers to him, his family and his medical providers. Very sad to hear about his complications.

I've had a compound femur fracture that damaged my femoral artery. The wound was gnarly for a couple weeks. Felt like it took forever to close up.

Sucks to hear about the complications, I hope he gets well.