I have been contacted by a reporter doing a story on MRSA in Texas athletes:
I’ve contacted several high school and college athletic trainers about MRSA and they told me it wasn’t a problem, they’d neither seen nor heard of any athletes being infected, and were just telling kids to wash their hands more often. This response reminds me of the things emergency personnel tend to say before they get hit by their first hurricane.
It’s at odd with the findings of a 2005 study in one of the Texas’ 10 high school athletic regions, which reported 36 confirmed MRSA cases among high school athletes, with 31 of those in football players. It’s also at odds with the more serious attitude now being taken toward MRSA by the National Football League.
Can you please help me find an MRSA patient in Texas to help me humanize this story and bring home the horror of this disease. They must be a football player, or former football player who contacted the bug as a result of playing on the team. From what I’ve read, rug rash caused by artificial playing surfaces provides the bug with a perfect entryway from the warm, moist surfaces found in team locker-rooms.
I am also seeking secondary interviews with healthcare professionals willing to be up front about the speed with which MRSA is spreading.
If you will leave a comment here, and be sure to include a valid email address, I will see that the information gets to the right person. Thanks for your help!
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6 responses so far ↓
Sarah Lockwood // Nov 28, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Everyone in my household is MRSA positive. My daughter is almost four years old and has had this since she was 1. all of the antibotics that they give her don’ t work. And every doctor tells me that there is nothing else to do. I dont belive that there is no other options. Do you know of anybody who can help??
twb // Nov 29, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Sadly: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/113007dnmetskateboarder.20ebb48.html
nhagen // Nov 30, 2007 at 11:46 am
My 9 year old neice has recently contracted MRSA & has been at Medical Cityin the hospital for 9 out of the last 11 days. Her fever & pain can only be controlled with tylenol & she’s on a pic-line leading the strongest antibiotics directly toward her heart. It seems they are merely stabilizing her, but want to send her home & back to school (PlanoISD) with the pic-line where she can continue to take treatments 3 x a day.
There must be more they can do!!!
And the school is not interested in sending a notice out to staff & parents about it, said something about a hippa rule???…
This is where my neice probably picked it up!
Rich K // Jan 9, 2008 at 11:12 am
I contracted MRSA during my ACL surgery in December. On New Years the wounds opened up and began to dran. All my hard work to walk after surgery were for not, because once the MRSA bacteria kicked in I could not put any weight on my leg. Over the past week I have undergone two surgeries, and I also was sent home with a PICC in my arm and will be on antibiotics for at least 6 weeks.
My concern is that the wound were my hamstring graph was taken is still draining. I feel like my life has come to a complete hault, and there is nothing I can do. I have never felt so helpless in my life.
Anita // Mar 17, 2008 at 6:18 pm
My daughter had ACL surgery in Sept. 07 and her MRSA infection sounds just like yours. She had increasing pain and the wound opened up. She had swelling and pain in Jan. and they said it was a ruptured bursa sac. The swelling came back last wk. and they did an MRI and found it was in her femur and probably had been since Jan. She had 2 surgeries this wk. and is back home now.
How have you been since your surgery? If you get any significant swelling, drainage etc… insist that they culture the drainage.
Are you considering a lawsuit? We weren’t until this latest infection and the fact that the hospital is harrassing us for a bill that we would not have had if they had not given her MRSA during surgery to begin with.
sarah // Mar 18, 2008 at 10:45 pm
my daughter last year was hospitalized for MRSA her entire back was covered with them I had lost count at 40, I have never seen anything like this before. She was only 3 at the time. I think she contracted it from a family member that had surgery. I am scared now because my son needs a new kidney and they are worried that his body with reject it if he get contracted with MRSA. I dont think that people realize just how hard it is to keep one sibling from infecting another and still let them maintain a normal lifestyle.
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