Comments on: MRSA - it’s nasty

by: Steve

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:36:47 +0000

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by: My mother had it

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:33:16 +0000

My mom had MRSA. She had cut her finger at work. She worked at a restaurant in New Mexico. Her finger started turning black and spreading in 48 hrs. I believe she got it from someone that worked there.

by: Barb

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:06:59 +0000

Several years ago, when looking for a nursing home for my mother to recover from a broken pelvis, I was shown an available double-bedded room by the admissions director who was a nurse. The lady in the room told me she had “that MSRA”. Fortunately, I knew what she meant…she had MRSA. They were going to put my mother in that room! The admissions director said it would be no problem because the lady had urinary tract MRSA. Of course, there was only one bathroom in the room!
What an idiot that admission director was and thanks to the lady who told me about her MRSA!

by: Karen

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:29:29 +0000

Hi My sister contacted this infection MRSA while in the hospital for a heart valve replacement. She was in the hospital for SIX MONTHS and in the ICU most of the time and then LTAC unit(long term acute care). MRSA was in her lungs and caused pneumonia over and over again. After spending each day with her and watching I can understand how it is passed from patient to patient. We almost lost her several different times. Now she is finally home and rehabing. Hospitals are not safe places to be!!!!!!! But they could be, and some have shown that with persistent care MRSA can be controlled and almost eliminated completely. So I ask myself why Drs. are against these extra precautionary measures????? Perhaps we all need to ask the same questions.

by: Kelli

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:54:20 +0000

Hi
My husband had his leg amputated below the knee in October and was givin MRSA at that time. It is now June and he’s still trying to heal. It was so bad they almost had to take his knee. This is more than scary to think you go in to get fixed and come out with this. He’s constantly in and out of the hospital and has wound center treatments 5 days a week. Hospitals need to do something about this. It doesn’t do anyone any good to come home with this nightmare!!

by: Jen

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:14:20 +0000

Hello, I was infected with MRSA about 2 months ago, i had a huge abscess on my stomach, the infection spread like wildfire within 2 days, i had to have surgery on my stomach to remove all of the infection, it had gone very deep close to my lungs within those 2 days, my doctor believed i came in contact with it while i was in the hospital delivering my baby when i had a catheder placed. everyone please be careful this is a nasty infection!!

by: catherine

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:20:42 +0000

Where has CDC been for the last several years. This has been around for many, many years now and they’re just figuring this out. For years every nursing home patiet we have sent to the hospital-you can lay money that they come back with MRSA and they do.

by: melissa

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:13:30 +0000

my brother was infected with msra last summer too. he got it from camp. unfortunatly his didn’t fare so well. he was in icu for 6 months and had to have multiple surguries as it filled his lungs and surrounded his liver. even today he still has trouble breathing and is now unable to play sports. at the time he got the infection- noone here had ever seen it (his was the first case here). now there have been several cases but still none this bad. this stuff is serious and dangerous.

by: Nashville is Talking » Superbug: it’s like superfly, but worse.

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:55:32 +0000

[…] Toni over at Bear Creek Ledger writes this morning about a superbug called MRSA. It’s pretty nasty stuff, check this: I got this bug last summer and let me tell you, you don’t want to get this infection. I didn’t get it from a hospital, I got it from the gym. It’s painful and if not treated can land you in the hospital for a long time. Luckily (or unluckily) I got it in a place where it was painful to walk, lay or sit. Wearing clothes was painful. That got me into a doctor within a few days of getting the infection. I still had to have in office surgery. The infected areas had to be packed with the packing having to be changed every day for a couple weeks. Changing the packing was painful. […]