Definitely worse today, called the Doc at home.
He switched me to Cipro and said he wants to see me tomorrow.
Only had one dose of Cipro so far, feeling crappy.
I'll have another dose before bed then see how I feel in the morning.
This is beginning to be 'not fun'.
Rick (lefty) Bastedo
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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