In August I was hospitalized after a cut on my face became infected. I went to the emergency room on a Saturday night, took one look from the nurse at the bloated area, and they rushed me by ambulance to another hospital where I spent 3 days loaded up on antibiotics. They told me it was a resistant staph infection, and they were able to knock it out with a pretty rigorous regimen of antibiotics.
First week of October, I began to have a small bump on my face again, and instead of waiting until it became larger I went to the emergency room again, and this time I didn't have to stay in the hospital, but they gave me more and different types of antibiotics, which I hope took care of the problem. I'm still waiting to see if another outbreak comes, and if it does, I'm taking no precautions.
Anyway, news about this strain of staph has been hitting the news recently, and now they're claiming more people have died from this bacteria this year than AIDS. I wanted to make people aware that this is out there and to make sure that if they see something infected to get to the doctor pretty damn quick. The doctors told me that if I had waited another day or two the infected area would have burst, spreading this bacteria throughout my body, and probably killing me.
Here's a helpful link: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mrsa/DS00735
Make sure you take care of yourselves. I had no idea it was this prevalent out there until I started seeing more about it on the news.
First week of October, I began to have a small bump on my face again, and instead of waiting until it became larger I went to the emergency room again, and this time I didn't have to stay in the hospital, but they gave me more and different types of antibiotics, which I hope took care of the problem. I'm still waiting to see if another outbreak comes, and if it does, I'm taking no precautions.
Anyway, news about this strain of staph has been hitting the news recently, and now they're claiming more people have died from this bacteria this year than AIDS. I wanted to make people aware that this is out there and to make sure that if they see something infected to get to the doctor pretty damn quick. The doctors told me that if I had waited another day or two the infected area would have burst, spreading this bacteria throughout my body, and probably killing me.
Here's a helpful link: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mrsa/DS00735
Make sure you take care of yourselves. I had no idea it was this prevalent out there until I started seeing more about it on the news.
