MRSA Notes

AtomicTumor,
My heart goes out to you in ways I am not even close enough to a good enough writer to convey to you. Your loss is my loss and everyone who ever passionately loved someone’s loss. I wish I could help you shoulder the weight, and share the pain, and at the same […]

As I mentioned last week, prior to our world falling apart over here, AtomicTumor’s wife, BJ, has been suffering from a septic infection. As this week has gone on, it has been discovered to be, as I suspected, as an MRSA infection. BJ is in the ICU, on a ventilator, and suffered a […]

AtomicTumor, from my old hometown, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (well, I am from Knoxville, but they are absolutely right on top of each other) is blogging his heart out, as his wife is currently going through a horrifying battle with septicemia.
Their story is so familiar - it is the same exact story as our MRSA […]

At least 45 students in Sumner, Rutherford and Franklin, TN counties have been diagnosed with Staphylococcal infections in the past couple of weeks - the Rutherford county students had MRSA, the antibiotic resistant bacteria.
All schools began a daily program of disinfection (with bleach) of the athletic facilities, bathrooms and cafeterias, and do not […]

Brandon, a 2 yr old boy is discovered to have a CA-MRSA infection after a fall. From the Missouri News Tribune:
On May 4, two-year-old Brandon Stafford of Jefferson City was happily bouncing up and down on a trampoline while visiting his father in Memphis, Tenn., when he landed on his leg. While it didn’t […]

Emergency room doctors gave the 20-month-old girl
with strawberry-blond hair standard antibiotics to treat a high fever
and mild rash that looked like windburn. Then they sent her home.
The
antibiotics were useless, however, because Gillian Young was ill with
what’s becoming a common antibiotic-resistant bug. The infection
quickly left pea-sized lumps all over her body and fluid on her lungs
and […]

Resistant staph afflicts Tenn. student - Boston.com
DYERSBURG, Tenn. –A high school student here was diagnosed with a dangerous strain of staphylococcus infection. The Dyer County School System notified students and parents Thursday and told parents to look for the symptoms of the infection.
Staph infections are commonly found in hospitals and most often cause minor skin […]