I fought the MRSA and, I WON…I fought the MRSA and, I WON!
October 28, 2008
I fought the MRSA and, I WON…I fought the MRSA and, I WON!
Yes, I had MRSA…not a fun experience…and I had MRSA when MRSA wasn’t cool…or at least it wasn’t talked about in the media as it is now.
What is MRSA? Well if you do not know, this is cut directly from www.mayoclinic.com
MRSA infection is caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — often called “staph.” MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It’s a strain of staph that’s resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. MRSA can be fatal
Did you notice the last part…yes fatal…
Now this picture was taken by my wife’s camera phone, just before she made me go to the ER, for having what I thought was a “runaway zit” that just needed some time…It had popped it’s lovely head only about 48 hours previous, FYI.
Now like I said, I had MRSA before it was in the media so often, this November will make it 2 years ago.
The ER just scratched their head…they thought I just got bit by something…and gave me a shot in the arm…my own doctor (who I saw later that AM) however flipped out a bit, mostly because of the “closeness” to my all important brain. He got out his trusty scalpel (just like a kid in a candy shop) and cut me and squeezed me, repeat, repeat…repeat…then a shot in the ass!
So my point of this story is to ALL of the arrogant individuals out there (including myself) that think that they are above catching things like MRSA…and then ignoring the symptons…kind of like my face swelling symptoms, which, BTW, I would have kept my nose to the grind stone, pardon the pun, and “fixed” myself…which more than likely would have deleted my existance. I would explain more about MRSA, but just google it to find out more….wash your hands…MRSA is very common is hospitals and HEALTH CLUBS…
I fought the MRSA and, I WON…I fought the MRSA and, I WON! But I did not do it by myself…
If you had a curious bump, scratch or twitch and had a possible life saving experience, please do share. And hats off to my wife for constantly checking all of my parts…when she is on a hunt, I just leave her be.
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October 29th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Never heard of it, it would never have occured to me to go to the hospital for that. Fatal zit? Yowza.
October 29th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Yowza is right! In this pic I look like I took a round with Tyson…as my eyes and nose swelled like that just over night.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Ack! I had MRSA too, and I fought it and won. That is nasty stuff! I actually got it on my leg from an insect bite, possibly a spider. I had to go to the hospital twice! The first time the doctor just gave me antibiotics, but didn’t tell me it was mrsa. The second time, it had gotten into my blood stream and I had a lump on my stomach. I got lanced, squeezed OWWWW, and put on bed rest for a week. ROUGH times! Glad you made it through it! Yes yes definitely wash your hands!!
October 29th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
OMG! A friend of mine was telling me the other day about how she had gotten that. But hers was on her leg. That’s so scary, but so glad you are ok.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
haha, she just left a comment
October 29th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Well Ruthie…looks like you are in the middle of two MRSA people…Boooooooh!
October 31st, 2008 at 11:16 am
I found you on Twitter and want to thank you for following me in return. I’m so glad your wife is the insistent type and that you are recovering successfully. My brother has a weird sudden spot on his upper right arm that it turns out is cancerous. He has surgery on Monday. You are so correct when you say to never, ever “assume” any little weird spot or lump or whatever is just going to go away…you just never know what it could be. I’m so glad you are doing well. - Linda
October 31st, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Thanks Linda…our best wishes for you brother!
November 17th, 2008 at 9:55 am
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December 8th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
A kid from our highschool died from this
glad you recovered, I would have missed your posts
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