At 10:51 AM 1/9/2011, an5.sprite at 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.
>
>My father went into the hospital on his 92nd birthday Dec 11 with a
>bleeding ulcer. They fixed that in a couple days but he developed
>MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus) from the IV. His arms and
>hands swelled, fever rose, caught mechanical pneumonia, eventually
>his kidneys failed. He died on Christmas Day. This is nothing to
>fool around with but there isn't much you can do about it. Be aware,
>be careful, be lucky.
Bob
>Steve
>Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick Bastedo <rbastedo at gmail.com>
>Sender: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
>Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 18:29:31
>To: Kirk Hargreaves<khargreaves2 at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: rbastedo at gmail.com
>Cc:
>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 at
>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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