This may be of interest to some of you who have been through this - I know it brings back memories for Marshall and I.
“As she boarded the plane for Miami, Anna Nicole developed a painful abscess at the site of the injection,” said a source with knowledge of the case. “The needle wasn’t sterile. The pain kept getting worse as the abscess got larger and larger very quickly.”
From Miami, Anna Nicole and her live-in lawyer Howard K. Stern traveled to Hollywood, Fla. The pain from the abscess became excruciating and Anna Nicole developed a high fever.
By the time she got to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino her fever was 105.
Anna Nicole, unaware that her blood was being poisoned by infection, had also developed a second infection from a virulent form of norovirus, which causes intestinal problems.
It was at this point that Anna Nicole — and her entourage — made a fatal mistake. She refused to go to a hospital, a decision that would have saved her life.
Instead, Anna’s people gave her an ice bath to control the fever, administered the antibiotic ciprofloxacin by mouth and gave her an over-the-counter flu medicine.
As the needle-caused infection took over her body, she began vomiting, had severe diarrhea and could not urinate.
On February 6, a Tuesday, Anna spent the whole day in bed. She could not keep fluids down. She was becoming severely dehydrated.
On Wednesday, February 7, Anna seemed somewhat better, but she wasn’t, the source said.
“She was still vomiting and suffering diarrhea,” said the source. “Again, she spent the whole day in bed, as the abscess continued to grow. She was in such pain, she just wanted to sleep.”
And that’s when the final fatal mistake was made. Sometime overnight on February 7, Anna ingested the sleeping medication chloral hydrate. The drug is extremely potent. The dose was too much — and in fact it was a toxic level, the ENQUIRER and Star have learned exclusively. On Thursday, February 8, Anna never woke up. [source]
Again, we don’t know yet that this was an MRSA infection for sure, but I sure think it is very likely that it was. Her story is too close to many of ours not to be. I also somewhat doubt the overdose - Anna Nicole likely had a high tolerance of medications - it is probably next to impossible to tell which killed her. Not to mention we know how doctors are about diagonosing infections (not always so good).
In our situation, at the point we went to the hospital, Marshall was vomiting, unable to sleep, and in excrutiating pain, his kidneys were shutting down and it was only after arriving at the hospital that we found he had a fever of 104. I have no doubt that it would have been a matter of hours before he had died. Anna Nicole’s last days match right up to Marshall’s story, and that of many other people who have been through this. I cannot imagine why, with a fever that high, that someone didn’t take her to the hospital, or at the very least, call a doctor in. I only hope they will come forth and talk about her infection.
Bless her heart again - I only hope she is in a better place now, and surrounded by people who actually care about her.
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suzette rizzo // May 26, 2007 at 2:17 am
It wouldn’t surprise me if it was MRSA that killed her or had some part in her untimely death. I cannot understand why the media has not made a big stink about the MRSA. That needs to be done more and more people are dying from MRSA and the docs have no clue what is wrong with them. I guarantee even if Anna would have gone to the hopital that would have just said she had a virus and released her, thinking the pain in her buttocks was just a gimmick to get pain meds. At least shes in heaven with her son and happy.
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