Anyone have experience with MRSA? - Page 2

2blonde · ‎03-10-2010

((( Gidgetgh and MaggieMack )))

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Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

My cousin who is a nurse has a daughter who also is a nurse. The daughter got MRSA on her upper thigh through a small wound (cut herself shaving). It because VERY infected and took weeks to heal.

She received IV therapy and had wound-vac treatments in her home until she was healed. Today she is fine.

My father had the very same symptoms as yours. He was always sharp as a tack too. When he was in the hospital for a small surgery, he started to get goofy and confused. He complained that people who were in his room were hungry and thirsty and he would ask us to feed them. No one was there.

It turned out to be prostrate problems. His prostrate was enlarged and urine was not passing correctly. The drugs he was given in combination with the prostrate problem caused his confusion and high temp.

HIs prostrate was removed and he was back to being the man he always was. There could be many things that can go wrong as we age, sometimes it's a hunt and peck process to find out what the issue is.

Blessing for you and your father.

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

Best wishes for your dad, Gidget. Out of curiousity I would see if I could find the hospital's MRSA statistics.

missy1 · ‎03-10-2010

Yes. (somebody I know)

luvmyteddy4 · ‎09-04-2010

I had a MRSA infection on my leg 2 years ago caused by a bad thorn on my neighbors bush. I remember pulling the huge thorn out and right away my leg was red and burning, the next day oozing awful stuff. I had no idea what it was.

I was taking care of my mother who lived with me who was dying and waited almost a week before I went to ER. The burning and oozing was so painful but I wrapped it up every day and the hospice nurse happened to see it and said run to ER.

It took several months to heal. I also had bronchitis at the same time so I was not feeling well at all.

It is contagious so I shouldn't even have been around my mom, I had to be very careful.

Lilysmom · ‎03-09-2010

@gidgetgh, sending prayers your way. LM

patbz · ‎03-10-2010

DH was 59 and had a neck ache and a fever. Took him to our local ER where be had a TIA. He was then medivaced to Mayo in Scottsdale. When he became conscious he was delusional. It took 8 days in ICU and 2 operations but the root cause was MRSA ( probably from an aneurysm surgery in Santa Barbara. 5 1/2 yrs later he is fine, even after we had to fight BCBS over a $450,000 bill from Mayo as it was "out of network".

Mindy D · ‎05-23-2010

Unfortunately, your father probably acquired MRSA via an indwelling catheter. It's a staphylococcus infection that is resistant to most antibiotics and with your father's other medical conditions, not going to make his recovery any easier. My mother had a stroke, they put in an indwelling catheter and she got an infection that almost killed her. After a year, an immunologist and infectious disease specialist at another hospital found the right combination of IV antibiotics and she finally recovered from the infection, although she still remained paralyzed from the stroke. My heartfelt thoughts are with you. It is a battle to fight, but don't give up and get consults from infectious disease specialists as well as your mother's neurologist.

gidgetgh · ‎03-09-2010

Maggiemack, I'm so sorry to read about your husband. I wish I could meet you in person so I could give you a hug.

The doctor came in awhile ago and said the second culture showed no MRSA. So who knows. All I know is he's really sick and we don't have a "smoking gun" and my sister and I are so concerned and very sad.

It's possible that that all of these complications are caused by the bleed in his brain. But so many of the issues, the confusion, cough, aphasia, came out of the blue last Friday, while he was in rehab, two weeks after the stroke.

Why is it, when I have a 50/50 guess at something, I'm always 100% wrong?