http://trishatorrey.com/2008/03/20/another-mrsa-death-more-heartbreak/ A blog about patient empowerment, advocacy, safety, consumerism and tools to navigate the dysfunction of American health care. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://trishatorrey.com/2008/03/20/another-mrsa-death-more-heartbreak/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 Connie Beswick Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:00:37 +0000 http://trishatorrey.com/2008/03/20/another-mrsa-death-more-heartbreak/#comment-1098 A good friend of mine had a hernia removed and after being home about a week, her surgical incision had really swollen and one day it began draining and blood was coming out of the incision. Her daughter rushed her to the hospital and they discoved she had picked up a staff infection from the hospital when she had the hernia surgery. It was not MRSA, but they bagan giving her two kinds of antibiotics at a time and she was in the hospital for over a week. They told her it could have only happened from "skin on skin." Someone had not washed their hands when they checked her hernia surgery they suspect. She came home and began feeling terrible and a week later her daughter rushed her to the hosital again and she had C-Diff which is caused from an allergic reaction to one of the antibiotics she was taking. She was so ill and was vomiting and had diaharria for a week at least, she couldn't eat and was very sick. Finally, she was able to come home and after six weeks she is slowly regaining her strength. However, she has noticed that she is short of breath sometimes and never had anything like this before her hernia surgery. What a time she has had. A friend of mine told me about MRSA and said that she had heard that several high school kids had gotten it and died from it. What my friend had was not MRSA. A good friend of mine had a hernia removed and after being home about a week, her surgical incision had really swollen and one day it began draining and blood was coming out of the incision. Her daughter rushed her to the hospital and they discoved she had picked up a staff infection from the hospital when she had the hernia surgery. It was not MRSA, but they bagan giving her two kinds of antibiotics at a time and she was in the hospital for over a week. They told her it could have only happened from “skin on skin.” Someone had not washed their hands when they checked her hernia surgery they suspect.
She came home and began feeling terrible and a week later her daughter rushed her to the hosital again and she had C-Diff which is caused from an
allergic reaction to one of the antibiotics she was taking. She was so ill and was vomiting and had diaharria for a week at least, she couldn’t eat and was very sick. Finally, she was able to come home and after six weeks she is slowly regaining her strength. However, she has noticed that she is short of breath sometimes and never had anything like this before her hernia surgery.
What a time she has had. A friend of mine told me about MRSA and said that she had heard that several high school kids had gotten it and died from it. What my friend had was not MRSA.

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