Hi llrn,

I want to thank you for your thoughts on infection. I suffered a serious infection with my injury which caused my RSD. Never have I felt like the infection caused the RSD but the process of prolonged healing. First injury, second injury infection, third injury debridement. Constant battering to my original injury. Stitches in for 3.5 weeks. Infection does no doubt have some relation to RSD but I wonder more about the trauma infection causes not the actual infection. I try to think positive knowing I have no control over the actual reason I developed RSD. One can only look frwd to better sunny pain free days. The last thing I want to have on my mind would be the C word. This thread I was avoiding but couldn't hold back any longer. My sister in law had a small cell cancer the dr. said she had like a 7% chance of surviving. She told him she was going to be in the 7% group! She made it past 5 years this year.

Well thanks for hearing my thoughts,

Debbie