Here is yet another story, but one with a happy ending unlke so many others, of a healthy young athlete acquiring CA-MRSA. This is the same story I hear over and over, and the same story we went through. Jerod is a lucky young man!!
Jerod bruised his hip in a pickup basketball game at Oklahoma Bible Academy a week before Thanksgiving.
It hurt enough the next day for him to miss practice. By Sunday, he couldn’t walk. His father, thinking it was a groin injury, took him to Integris Bass Baptist Health Center.
Three days later, he was diagnosed with MRSA and rushed to St. Francis after he had lost 15 pounds.
“After looking at his charts, they said this boy is dying,†said Jayson Potts. “He gave us five minutes with him to say goodbye.â€Â
He was put in a coma because he was too weak to withstand treatment. The family was told on Thanksgiving there wasn’t much hope. The infection had spread all over his body. He had gone into toxic shock, “which usually kills people,†Jayson Potts said.
For more information from some folks that have taken a completely horrific similar situation and done some great things with it, see the Ricky Lannetti web site here, and know that any support you were to make to them is going for a great effort.
CA MRSA, MRSA in Children, MRSA in Schools/Athletics, Oklahoma
6 responses so far ↓
Tina Gonthier // Jun 15, 2006 at 9:25 pm
My daughter Kari – who is featured in the documentary Hands of Hope made – also had CA-MRSA and recovered. She also had TSS so even though they say it is rare it happens. She spent two and half weeks in PICU and another two weeks in the hospital and another 2 months on IV medicine and another month on oral medicine. The CA-MRSA also caused numerous other problems. She spent two years in physical therapy to be able to dance. So please everyone out there it is not confined to just boys playing sports, girls are effected also. Kari was a student at a fine arts high school and they had a “dressing room” which is similar to “locker rooms”. She also has a chronic skin condition, atopic dermatitus, which could have possibly been the way the staph got in her blood stream. Unfortunately there is no way to know.
Christina // Jun 15, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Hi Tina, great to see you – I hope you and Kari are doing very well!! Thanks so much for your input, there is much to be learned from Kari’s story. Take good care of yourselves!
Dana Langley // Jul 26, 2007 at 8:36 am
Our son is home in bed right now recovering from a serios MRSA infection following a broken ankle, pneumonia, 2 trips to the ER and a 2wk hospital stay at OU Children’s Hosp. We were very lucky to have caught it so soon. He has had some infection in the sternum, the knee and hip/groin area. He hope to get well so he can go back to basketball late this fall. He is on IV antibiotics 3xa day at home. Please tell others about this terrible bug. Dana
Jessica // Aug 25, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I’m 19 and I live in Miami, Oklahoma. I went to the ER last night because I thought my tattoo I had got on August 15th had got infected. The docter there told me that I had MRSA. I’m still learning some stuff about it, but I really dont know a whole lot about it. If any one could please email with any information, i’d appreciate it. thisbravenew_world@yahoo.com
Jon // Oct 2, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I am recovering from CA-MRSA myself. I had 3 surgeries, spent over a week in the hospital and missed a month of work from something that started out looking like a spider bite or a boil. The initial treatment I received made it worse, I knew nothing about it, unfortunately I learned the hard way and am Very well aware of what it is and what it does NOW! I encourage everyone to spread the word and make this deadly bug something people know about before it’s too late.
Jacki // Oct 18, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I have recently recovered from MRSA. I recieved it from a co-worker who thought she had a prolem with boils all over her body. I woke up one moring to what I thought was a boil by the next day I was so sick with fever and I could not even walk. It took three weeks of treatment before it was under control. Since Oklahoma finally started to admit this is becoming a problem, I convinced my co-worker who was riddled with “boils” that she had a more serious issue. She and her son are now recieving treatment.
Leave a Comment