I have a friend who died due to MRSA. It was not diagnosed correctly and
the anti biotics they used would not touch it. Later learned that it takes
a combination of two special antibotics to handle it. . if it is caught in
time.
Once again, "Good people, good medicine." Yeah right. ..
Kirk
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:51 AM, <an5.sprite@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hospitals are a major source of Staph infections. They all try to clean
> everything but some are better than others. I heard of a case where the
> bacteria was on a cell phone key pad. Guess what is never sanitized, even
> better the nurses or lab techs will ogten put on gloves and if they get a
> call just answer the phone. All the bacteria is now on these supposedly
> clean gloves that hold the needle they insert.
>
> The really scary case is MRSA which is an antibiotic resistant form fo
> Staph. When someone has that they are quarantined.
>
>
> Feel better.
>
>
> Steve
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Bastedo <rbastedo@gmail.com>
> Sender: spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net
> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 18:29:31
> To: Kirk Hargreaves<khargreaves2@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: rbastedo@gmail.com
> Cc: SPRIDGETS<spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Arm Staph Infection
>
> geez there were some seriously sick looking people in radiology that day
> not to mention the guy doing the IV - eewwwww...
>
> All I was doing was trying to take care of myself, this is exactly why I
> won't let anyone I don't KNOW touch my Midget or Sprite.
> I'm more freaking careful with my cars than I am of my body.
>
> I just learned something about myself.
>
> Rick (just call me lefty)
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Rick,
> >
> >
> > These kind of things are so often found in hospital environments. and
> can
> > become serious.
> >
> > You might want to get a full on blood test later on to determine if
> > anything else got into your system. . I am thinking that it would not
> hurt
> > just to know?
> >
> > If something serious comes out of this you might sue their pants off as
> > this is unacceptable stuff. They need to learn how important it is in
> the
> > future to ensure that everything is sterile before they do these
> > procedures. I get pissed when I hear stuff like this.
> >
> > Is this Kaiser? Just wondering. . .
> >
> > Kirk
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