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Did my doctor in Florida accidentally mess my leg up but making it heal wrong?

I’m a 22 year old male, July 6, 2017 I wis involved in a severe motorcycle accident, I was air lifted to the hospital having broke 6 bones and ruptured my left lung. I broke my fumur, tibia, and fibula of my left leg. My right elbo right at the joint, and my right arm both radius and ulna. My question is with my leg, I feel as if the doctor they had do the surgery kinda peiced me back together, I had 10 screws and a plate on my tibia and 10 screws and a plate on my femur. The X-rays looked real bad so I was giving it time to heal and the doctor(now seeing my orthopedic outpatient) kept telling me everything was healing great and I’ll be able to walk with a lot of rehab. I ended up moving from Florida to my dads in New York Long Island being unable to care for myself (financially and physically) around mid september 2017. I began seeing a new orthopedic party of stony Brooke hospital and learned around the end of October I had contracted mrsa in my elbo and had to have the hardware removed and had a PICC line inserted for long-term IV antibiotics, was placed on vancomycin for 60 days to clear up the mrsa, around a month into the treatment I had an allergic drug reaction and my entire body was covered with what the doctor called a “drug rash”. They switched my antibiotic to  daptomycin for the remainder of the 60 days. Approaching my end date December 26, 2017 I noticed a weak spot in the surgical site of my leg and just knew it was starting to get infected, a day later it was getting worse, I called my orthopedic and he scheduled another operation this time on my left leg to remove the hardware of my tibia and femur and debridement. Upon the removal of hardware and the operation was complete my surgeon said he took cultures which came back positive for MRSA and said that it looked really infected and that he wanted to do another debridement 3 days later and I remained hospitalized with 2 Jp drains one in the top(femur) of the 16 inch incision and one on the bottom(tibia). He performed the second surgery, and I went home 3 days later and my daptomycin perscription was extended for another 60 days, upon nearing the 60 days my blood levels still weren’t were they should be so I was extended 2 weeks to be safe. It’s now march 25, 2018 and I was finally able to have my PICC line removed. Mrsa free from what I know but the antibiotics did a number on my digestive tract. Also have more questions about how my initial surgery was done if my bone was not tightly fixated as it should have done and if there is anything there could have been done to prevent my leg from having permant range of motion loss. Right now I can’t bend my left leg more then 15 degrees (which is not much!) hard to sit in a car unless the car seat is all the way back or my leg is up across the back seat. Walking alone is hard for now, I have to limp on my leg that doesn’t bend and because of that reason I have to swing my leg outward so it doesn’t scrape the ground and it’s been doing a number on my hips and my good leg (right leg). ANY AND ALL ADVICE IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!
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