233. Is it too late...?

Having read just about everything i can on bone infections the one re-occurring point i keep finding is that if a bone infection is evident on an x-ray (as Spices was) then it is usually to late to treat especially if near other important structures such as a joint. I'd like to believe this wasn't the case but Spices rate of improvement since the first major improvement has been so slow. She is still noticeably lame in trot even though she has now been on antibiotics for almost 4 weeks so whilst i think the infection has definitely been arrested i still don't think it has completely cleared and can't say i'm all that optimistic that it will...:(