MRSA Notes

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• Annette // Oct 19, 2006 at 12:22 pm

  My father died nov.2003 from sepsis after spleen surgery at the age of 63 and it was 12 days after surgery.we where aware of all the risks but an infection like this was never mentioned.by the by time the doctors found out just what it was the $10,000 meds. did no good.this is a very serious illness that needs more attention!

• mary marshall // Jan 21, 2007 at 11:42 am

  My husband is in icu fighting for his life from sepis (mrsa) It all started a year ago with hip surgery

• Annette // Jan 21, 2007 at 4:36 pm

  Mary-
  my prayers are with you and your husband for a full recovery!! please stay on top of the doctors as well as the hospital.I don’t know all your details,but I can understand what you must be going through.

• Christina // Jan 23, 2007 at 11:48 am

  Mary - we will sure keep your family in our prayers. Annette - you are so right. Unbelievable to me that this huge risk of hospitalization is so minimized when so many people have suffered and died because of it.

• Kathi // May 8, 2007 at 2:31 pm

  My experience with MRSA followed a near fatal car accident in 2001. After being sent home to recover, the symptoms set in: very high fever, weakness, loss of apetite, severe back pain. Rushed back to hospital and emerg. room discovered multi organ shut-down. Placed on life support for about a month, and family was told nothing more could be done, except prayer. I never knew of nor anyone who had this infection. God did bring me back to Him through this slow and painful recovery (accident caused multiple fractures of femur, most ribs, collarbone, lacerated liver and lacerated spleen. Mary, I will pray for your husband, because only God can cure this infection.

• mary // May 13, 2007 at 12:17 am

  Thank-you for your prayers for my husband. He has been home for about a month now. After the mrsa infection he became very ill from what is called C-diff for short. Its a intestinal infection from all the strong antibiotics (vancomycin)he was on for so long. He was put back in icu again for this and almost had surgery to remove his intestines. I’m emotionally exhausted from all of this. He is still very weak and stays in bed most of the time. I did not know how he survived after going through so much. Your prayers and everyone close to us who prayed made a difference in his recovery. The doctors and nurses who took care of him were great too. Again thank-you–Mary

• Dayle // May 19, 2007 at 9:33 pm

  My dad died of MRSA May 11th, 2007….this is terrible stuff. Why does the general public have so little knowledge about such a dangerous bacteria???
  To all of you who have lost someone to MRSA - - your are in my prayers.

• suzette rizzo // May 26, 2007 at 1:59 am

  My grandfather died on xmas day 2006 after contracting MRSA while in the hospital. His started in his foot as a boil and ended up becoming flesh eating. His foot was purple with a huge hole in it, that smelled horrindus. We spoke with his doctor regarding this and she ignored it for a while and then placed him on vancomycin after when kept complaining. They also would not keep the wound clean or do any wound care except some normal saline and gauze after i pitched a fit. I literally had to stay at the hospital some nights till after midnight until i made sure the dressing was changed. He went to a rehab facility and bascially the same thing, nothing was done. This all started in oct 2006. The only reason he ended up in the hospital was because he had a panic attack. On dec 15th i received a call stating that he seemed confused and was taken back to the hospital, after that i was told that it had gone into his bone and i figure blood to and he was septic at this point. I got him back to normal mind wise, but by then the mrsa had already done its thing and killed him the same day he was to be released. We have a lawyer and are sueing that hospital and doctor, due to neglect. What makes me so mad is that because someone is old they are considered by some drs and heathcare workers to be worthless and to be not correctly treated due to their age. This needs to stop!!!! His dr put that he died due to old age on the death cert, trying to cover her butt.she has been sued before for medical malpractice twice in million dollar cases sick isnt it.

• jerry huddleston // May 26, 2007 at 4:28 pm

  my son has mrsa .he will be 29years of age in july 07 . he has been in two hospices this year 07. nursing homes also.the hospices are worse than the nursing homes.most of the people they hire are from other countries who dont care about the patients, only their paychecks my 1st. cousin passed away this month and buried. i looked at his body and saw he had died from malnutrion. my son is down to 88 pounds because they dont take time to feed him i do my best to go feed him once aday. i pray with others for him.the medical profession (so call) needs dire and immediate retifying .ji have found out about THE IILUMINATI who own and control the WORLD SYSTEMS.they are SATANINST.SEE

• Wendy // May 29, 2007 at 9:53 pm

  I am a 42 year old female who went into the hospital for a routine D&C and hysteroscopy on May 2nd. After the 20 minute procedure I was in severe pain only to find out that my uterus and lower intestine were punctured. On May 4th I had major stomach surgery to repair the above. On May 6th I was rushed to ICU and was diagnosed with MRSA. After 16 days in the hospital (8 of those in ICU) and 14 days on Vancomycin, I am home and healing nicely. I wanted to post a little uplifting note.

• Rhoda // Jun 3, 2007 at 3:21 pm

  Some of you might be interested to know that there is a new clinic located in Lubbock, Texas offering alternative care for MRSA i.e. the maggot treatment in the news so much lately, as well as a less advertised treatment called Phage Therapy. Phage Therapy is basically the use of tiny viruses that feed on MRSA, C Diff and other bacterium without harming human tissue. Phages can be applied directly to a wound or ingested. They also embrace other non antibiotic treatments such as the use of silver wound dressings, bark powder, honey extracts, and others. The Wound Care Clinic was offering treatment of this kind free of charge the last time I knew. For more information you can Google The Wound Care Clinic in Lubbock. There is only one other clinic like this in the world so if you like the idea help me to tell people about it so maybe there will someday be more places offering Phage Therapy!
  www.rhoda.mrsastory.com

• Pat // Aug 3, 2007 at 6:12 pm

  My father-in-law contracted C-diff in the hospital following complications from a stroke in Feb. 2007. He lost 62 lbs in two months with this infection and now down to 137 lbs. We thought we had lost him three different times because of this infection. He is now finally healing and getting better after a very long, hard bout with this dangerous infection. I feel for anyone that goes through this horrible illness.

• Yayay // Sep 4, 2007 at 7:26 am

  I also almost died because my OB punctured my intestine and uterus during a D&C. I had sepsis but the Lord Jesus Christ healed me. Praise the Lord!!!

• Anita // Sep 8, 2007 at 3:48 pm

  My Dad died of sepsis in April as a result of MRSA and PCM after hip surgery. I want to hold the culprits at the VA and the nursing home they shuffled him off to for more neglect responsible but need a bulldog of a lawyer to take them on…Is there anyone to help me?

• Lynn // Oct 24, 2007 at 3:26 pm

  My Dad died on January 7th 2007 due to C-Diff Sepsis. He was 89 years old, but had been doing quite well and was mentally as alert and active as a 50 year old. He had been struggling with the effects of long-term diabetes and was facing possible kidney failure but had been holding his own until a week before Christmas 2006 when he began to complain of not feeling well. He was in an assisted living home but did most everything for himself. One night a few days before Christmas the nurse checked in on him in his room (which was the usual routine) and noticed he was not responsive when she called him. He also had a bump on his head with some blood. They took him to the hospital in an ambulance where they checked him out thoroughly. He had been to the hospital two times in the preceding week because he wasn’t feeling well, but the doctor could determine nothing to be wrong with him. I remember him telling me that he thought it strange that he would shake occasionally when he never did in the past. So the hospital checked him out first to see if he was alright mentally since it looked like he might have taken a fall. He was fine. Then they checked all his other systems which proved alright. His kidney doctor said that his kidney function had dropped to the point where he probably needed dialysis. (I thought that might have been the problem) But the dialysis did not really seem to help him. About the third day in the hospital the kidney doctor said his kidneys were improving and I got excited that he would recover and get out of there. However, he developed a fever with chills. They began treating him for a pneumonia. He had had diverticulosis most of his life and took frequent enemas. The hospital refused to give him one and he was angry with them. He was fiesty and angry up till day 3 when the fever set in and then it went from bad to worse in no time. It was not until several days into it that the hospital realized he had a C-Diff infection. They said they could not give him the proper medication to treat it because his other physical problems—diabetes and kidney failure. He was in the hospital almost two weeks and died on January 7th, two weeks before his 89th birthday. I believe my Dad would have stood a good chance to recuperate (even though he was old) if the sepsis had been diagnosed earlier and more aggressive methods used. I agree with the writer who said it is a real shame the way older people are treated like nonentites and problems ignored simply because of their age. But we as a nation no longer cherish life as we once did. We think nothing of ripping a fetus out of its mother’s womb, so it is no wonder we feel justified in ignoring the elderly too. These are just the beginning stages. We can expect much worse in the near future. God’s Word is true, and those of us who know Him personally can see what is coming. (…in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, etc… bottom line, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God!…ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. This is right out of II Timothy Chapter 3. I don’t know about you, but I am excited because I know where I am going to spend eternity. Do you?

• Kirston // Mar 5, 2008 at 3:48 pm

  My dad died of Sepsis on September 27 2007. He went in for a really small surgrey and past away in one week. The word Sepsis was never said to us while he was in the hospital. This is a really bad thing.

• Muirne // Mar 12, 2008 at 7:28 am

  I am still coming to terms with my husband’s recent death 5 days ago (March 7, 2008). My husband was only 55. In Sept.2007 he shattered his left arm in a fall and underwent surgery to rebuild it. A series of major complications requiring numerous hospital stays ensued. One of these was a three week hospital stay for MRSA in January 2008, which entered through the still unhealed wound in his left arm. He survived this bout and we thought we were out of the woods finally but he was hospitalized again in Febuary 2008. My husband had been a vibrant active man who spent every minute he could outdoors working, fishing, hiking, etc… He was now a weak, very ill individual who aged 20 years with the constant onslaught of infections and organ issues. This most recent bout turned out to be Septicemia and my husband was dead within 12 hours of admission to the hospital. I am still awaiting the death certificate but I am told MRSA and Septicemia are the main causes of death. With all of my husband’s newly aquired medical issues and numerous hospital stays (6 between Sept 2007 and March 2008) I would have thought the possibility of Sepsis would have been mentioned. I was so busy watching my husband for signs of ammonia, low Vitamin K, infection in the wound, edema, and other issues, I never even thought of the signs of Sepsis which, in this case, mimicked a stomach virus with low grade fever (99.3), nausea and diarrhea. These are deadly diseases being dealt with and for high risk patients the hospital staff should be very up front and open about the possibilities and ways to minimize contraction.

• Annette // Mar 12, 2008 at 10:33 am

  Muirne~

  I feel so very sorry for you and the recent death of your husband.Things like this should never happen and ALL THE RISKS should be brought to everyones attention when being in a hospital.My father passed over 4 years ago and till this day, we still find it hard to except his cause of death as (SEPSIS)
  which was never mentioned before he had surgery.As you mentioned ,when you are thinking of and worrying about other things that could go wrong, it’s hard to think something such as a terrible infection could claim someones life so quickly.
  I have always said there needs to be more awareness of these infections and these causes and risks. Just to help save one person from the devastation this leaves would be will worth it.

• Tina // Apr 9, 2008 at 10:01 am

  My mom is currently in the hospital with MRSA. We are not sure where she contracted it because she was in a different hospital the prior week with pneumonia. It’s possible she contracted it at that hospital. She had surgery for diverticulitis last Thursday, but her white blood count never came down like it should have post-operatively.

  If you or someone you love is hospitalized and their white blood count stays high (hers was at 21,000 or 21.0 post op), PLEASE demand a blood culture. They take a long time to grow, and in the interim, your body can deteriorate quickly if you have MRSA.

  Mom’s vancomycin seems to be working, but she is not out of the woods yet.

  In my opinion, hospitals are behind the push in the media to try and make the public believe that MRSA is not a hospital problem. They want the public to believe that MRSA is everywhere and that you don’t have to be hospitalized to contract it. I am not buying it. Everyone I know who has contracted it has had a recent hospitalization or clinic visit.

• Karen Zgorliski // Apr 10, 2008 at 10:41 am

  First off I would like to wish you the best on your Mom’s health my she have a full and healthy recovery My Father was sent to the hospital for just a vitamin K shot when the hospital noticed he had fluid on the one lung, after putting a drainage tube in him he ended up with a staph infection because the staff never checked his wound site or they ignored all of the warning signs, It was my mother that noticed there was something wrong after several attempts to have a nurse take her seriously when they finally had him looked at the infection was already getting to advanced. He immediataly was sent to the critical care unit, when everything after that just snowballed. it was an emotional roller coaster ride. My Father ended up with a trach, feeding tube, and on a respirator, what should of been a simple procedure and a one day stay ended up days turning into weeks and weeks turning into months. One infection lead to another then another, cellilitis (staph), then C-Diff, from antibiotics, his feeding tube got infected, his pic lines , his cathater from his dialysis that was in his neck for two long ended up with MRSA in his blood stream. But, if you ask any of this Doctors he had, they will say because he was on dialysis for years and he had to many things against him, age, dialysis, and an irregular heart rate all which he had before he walked in there on his own. He got sick in one hospital but because of insurance, and them saying they did all they can, and because we did not take the option of removing my Dad from all life support the sent him to another facility on January 15, 2008. After doing research on my own on the Internet I found out that what caused my Dads death was really MRSA sepsis, but on the death certificate they just called it Fungamia. as the cause of death. All these infections just took a toll on his body that he just could not fight off. My Father went to the Hospital on November 6, 2007 for what he believed was just routine, to never seeing his home again because he passed away on March 1, 2008. Ever since my Dad’s passing I have been searching for ways to help people be more aware of the damage that these infections can cause and how to prevent them I have even sent letters to both Hospitals that my Dad was in letting them know that there are precautions that they can take and be more aware of them. simply keep checking on the patients wounds, and take all symptoms seriously. Again may God be with your Mom, and you at this time and always. Take care of yourself too.
  Best wishes,
  Karen

• Cathy // Apr 10, 2008 at 11:29 am

  My daughter and our cat have MRSA and neither have been in the hospital. YOU CAN GET THIS!!!!
  It’s horrible that they are not doing public service announcments on this or anything!!!
  I don’t think the doctors are as informned as they should be about this.
  One doctor said to put triple anti-biotic ointment on my daughters arm(wound site) which I found out later you should NEVER do because it’s the wrong antibiotics in it(penicillin based) that do not kill this bacteria it helps it grow more!!!
  Also never use peroxide or alcohol on the
  wounds .
  The National Saftey Council’s 1996 First Aid Pocket Guide states “DO NOT use hydrogen peroxide. It does not kill bacteria, and it adversly affects capillary blood flowand wound healing.” And the Handbook on Nonprescrition Drugs states ethyl alchol “is not a desirable wound antiseptic because it irritates alredy damaed tissue. The coagulum(crust) formned may, in fact protectan the bacteria.

  Thank God we found staphwash!!9 an antibacterial wash that kills 100% of the bacteria.)
  My daughter is off doctors care cause the infection is GONE!
  and animalwash is helping our cat heal now too!
  www.staphwash.com
  this should be in every home if you ask me! Cathy

• Marisa // Apr 15, 2008 at 7:13 am

  My mother passed away on Feb. 25th. from Sepsis, aged 68. From being in perfect health, she had come down with the flu a couple of days before and by third day was rushed to the hospital by ambulance and died in ICU roughly 12 hours later. I had never heard of Sepsis in my life. I am wondering if she caught this at the hopital or could this have developed on its own as a consequence of the flu? Also, Sepsis was not mentioned as a cause of death, therefore not mentioned on the death certificate. Is this because hospitals do no want their records to show too many Sepsis cases?
  Marisa

• Dayle // Apr 15, 2008 at 6:52 pm

  Marisa - -I am so sorry to hear about your mother! Like you, I lost a parent to MRSA. My dad died just about a year ago - -after a bump to his right leg - and eventual infection - - - then a quick trip to the hospital from the assisted living facility. Within 72 hours dad was in ICU - - he lived for 22 more days.
  As I have real A LOT this last year about MRSA - -it is very possible for some people to be exposed to this in a hospital….but it is also very possible to come in contact with it nearly anywhere there are alot of people (you may remember recently a number of stories on the news about schools where students have had MRSA).
  When my dad died I asked why MRSA was not listed as the primary cause of death (kidney failure was primary - MRSA secondary). My college roommate is a doctor - -he says frequently someone dies of something that the MRSA may have caused - - so the MRSA is secondary. I really don’t agree -but……..
  Again, I’m sorry about your mother. All of us who have been effected by MRSA need to continue to educate others!
  Dayle

• mary marshall // Apr 15, 2008 at 9:23 pm

  please keep my husband mike in your prayers. He is scheduled to have a surgery in the morning. I hope and pray that we will not go through what we did last year. Thanks for your support–mary

• Cathy // Apr 16, 2008 at 6:24 am

  My prayers are with you !!!!! Say a prayer to St. Rita!! She’s the patron saint of healing wounds!!!! I know it can’t hurt and it seems to help!! Good Luck and God Bless!! Cathy

• Phyllis // May 5, 2008 at 8:48 am

  My Brother in law has C - Diff and is in critical cond., he is swollen all over and looks like he will pop. Has anyone heard of C - Diff making you swell. He has been in the hospital for weeks now and is getting worse.
  Appreciate any help.

• rossie // May 7, 2008 at 9:49 pm

  Ive been bit by a spider 5 yrs ago now living in alaska, ever sence the spider bite i have been getting bumps all over my body the doctors now say its mrsa, every medicine they give doesn’t work I don’t know what to do…

• cathy // May 14, 2008 at 7:18 am

  Today is May 15th ~
  45 days after our experience with this horrible bacteria began; and I’m so happy to say both my daughter and my cat are bacteria free!!!!!! The sore on my daughters arm is completely healed from the inside out thanks to STAPHWASH and the Dept of Agriculture says my cats bacteria was eradicated through the ANIMALWASH process!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!
  Please if anyone has any questions as to how we got rid of this so FAST see”STAPHWASH.com” they are the makers of the ANIMALWASH also.(made for animals with MRSA) Wonderful product!!!! Can NEVER thank them enough for giving our lives back!!! And saving the lives of my daughter and our cat!!!!! Cathy

• teresa // May 19, 2008 at 4:01 pm

  A friend of mine was diagnosed with sepsis the one in which his blood is infected. The doctors say that he has 78% chance of dying in the next 2 weeks. They believe that the infection is too far gone and they are not treating him with antibiotics. They have basically left him there to die. I just don’t understand how they could have let it go so far and not notice it (he lives in a nursing home) and now that they did notice it they will not treat him! I am so upset and I wish I could be there with him but I cant (he lives in Ohio and I live in Georgia). And his family cant make it there and I just don’t want him to go through this alone. My mom and I have been praying for him and I ask all of you to pray for him. I want him to know that even though we are not there with him we still care for him and we are with him in spirit and that god is and has always been watching over him.

• James Pate // May 19, 2008 at 8:47 pm

  Teresa
  Nursing homes are infested with MRSA and alot of other very bad becteria. They just don’t know what to do…
  We have a product name StaphWash that kills Staph/MRSA on contact. I am trying so hard to get it in nursing homes & day care centers with no luck. WHY??? Because insurance and Medicare will not pay for it. So they just let people suffer & die.
  My prays are with YOU.
  WWW.STAPHWASH.COM

• juanita // Jun 6, 2008 at 7:44 pm

  There is currently a Europe-wide push by Intensive Care physicians to get hospitals aware of Sepsis, and how to treat it correctly - I live in the UK, and the Department of Health and National Health Sevice have endorsed it, as the treatment you get in the first 6 hours, if correct, has a major influence on outcome. The movement has a website at
  , which has a lot of useful information,, but relies on local healthcare champions to pressurise hospital managers to implement the care pathways it recommends. Trouble with sepsis, is if you ‘guess’ the pathogen responsible, and you guess wrong, you end up treating the patient with an antibiotic that doesnt attack the main culprit, it just kills off any remaining ‘friendly’ bacteria that are helping fight the main bacteria causing the sepsis - and the patient dies - giving the wrong antibiotic is the actual cause of death for most patients with ’sepsis’! Sad but true, Kenyan doctors (who have poor facilities) know more about Sepsis and successfully treating it than most UK or USA hospitals !

  Copy their website for free, and stick it up in every hospital in your area!

• juanita // Jun 6, 2008 at 7:49 pm

  Teresa, (May 19th posting) - they are pigs for withdrawing treatment - its murder they call ‘futile care’ - its never futile to try to save a life rather than money! I once watched a filthy old tramp, covered n dirt, smelling of his own urine and faeces brought into a Casualty Department, and witnessed a team of 7 people working on him in Intensive Care for 5 hours to save his life. They didnt care who he was, and did this as a testament to who they were - so many elderly people are just told ‘treatment is futile ‘ when a few dollars of the right antibiotics would save their lives - its Ageism - we have it in the NHS in the UK, and its apalling - do hope your friend pulled through -

• Amanda // Jul 8, 2008 at 11:16 pm

  My grandmother went to ER the 24th of June with horrible neck pain. They gave her a pain patch, took some blood samples and sent her home. She didn’t feel comfortable going back to stay by herself so she came to my parents house to stay for a while. On the 28th, we took her back to the ER as she was declining rapidly. Turns out they were practically expecting her as the blood tests they had run showed she had MRSA. They knew and yet did not tell us but rather sent her away to possibly infect my family. The MRSA is now in her blood and they have no hope of any recovery. We don’t know how or where she got this infection; she doesn’t have any wounds or sores. She is now heavily medicated, as if in a coma, to control her pain and we are left basically waiting for her heart to stop. I think this is one of the worst things out there, with cancer or AIDS you can say goodbye and even with a heart attack or stroke you don’t have to watch your loved ones suffer. Please let this end soon.

• cathy // Jul 9, 2008 at 6:58 am

  Amanda, I’m so sorry to hear about your grandma.
  This has to be VERY difficult for you all.
  The doctors need to be taking this alot more seriously than they are!!
  They basically did the same thing to us with my daughter. They -knew that it was MRSA before they tested yet they sent her home with antibiotics and said to put “Tripleantibiotic ointment on it”. Which is the worst thing you can do; as it is the WRONG kind of antibiotics to treat this bacteria. They didn’t even tell us how contagious it was and gave her a note to return to school. (THANK GOODNESS I KEPT HER HOME ANYWAY!!!!)
  I truly believe that if I hadn’t extensively researched MRSA myself and found STAPHWASH to use; that my daughter wouldn’t have an arm today;let alone her life. The doctor office actually called a week later to see if she was going to make her appt. and were VERY SUPRISED when I said” yes “as they expected her to be in the hospital. Why if it is THAT serious hadn’t they called to check on her?!? When I did take her to appt they treated us like LEPERS and wouldn’t let her touch anything or go into the waiting room, but yet hadn’t said a word before about it even being contagious and would’ve sent her to school!!!!When the doctor saw her arm and how much the STAPHWASH had helped heal it ,she was amazed, yet didn’t seem interested in knowing HOW it got better so fast!! What we’d used! I couldn’t believe it!
  We need to somehow band together and make a stand!!! To make the doctors and medical association wake up and start treating this as something serious; because IT IS!!!! People are loosing their limbs and their lives! Who’s with me on this?!!?

• cathy // Jul 9, 2008 at 7:02 am

  Juanita, You mentioned a website for a movement, but I don’t see it in your post. Could you put it up for me? I’d like to join the fight!!!!!

• Lynn // Jul 9, 2008 at 9:15 am

  Cathy,

  You mention the product Staphwash. I tried to find it online with no success. Could you please tell me how to locate some. I would like to keep it on hand in case I ever need it.

  Thanks,

  Lynn

• cathy // Jul 9, 2008 at 10:33 am

  Gladly ~ As it took me hours of searching to find anything that would help. www.staphwash.com they also have the staphwash for animals that we used for our cat
  they were very helpful at central usa distrib where we got it. The owner himself called everyday to check on my daughters progress which is more than ANY doctor did the vet was more concerned than the doctor i tell you they dont realize the seriousness

• Michele // Jul 17, 2008 at 6:42 pm

  My grandfather just passed away 7/6/08. He was 84 yrs old. He went in the hospital for pnuemonia (they first told us no it is just bronchitis) and we fought with them because we KNEW it was pnuemonia. I have been his primary live in care givier for 4.5 years and I KNEW they were wrong. They sent him home, 2 days later they called at 1am and said bring him right in he has bacteria in his blood. We did. Then they did another draw and said oops we were wrong there is no infection it must have been a bad draw. They also said oh yea, the radiologist read the scan and he DOES have pnuemonia…HELLO WE TOLD YOU THAT 2 DAYS AGO BUT NO ONE LISTENED. Anyway, they also found a mass the thought was either lung cancer or lymphoma. They discussed with us his options and he opted for a bronchoscopy, which he was told would give them the answers they need. Well, it didn’t so they urged him to have another type of procesure (I forget them name) but this one was a little inscision on his neck. He did it. He was fine. Long LONG sotry short…he contract MRSA sepsis and the hosital NEVER told us. We would have done things a lot differently when his life was ending…A LOT different. I am not saying he would have lived much longer but we would have had more then 5 hours to prepare and be with him. We only found out the cause of death was sepsis from the FUNERAL DIRECTOR (who is a family friend) and then when we finally got his death certificate it said sepsis 3 days pnuemonia 1 month…He was only in the hospital 16 days…how can they say 1 month….
  My family ultimately feels he was written off because of his age. We also feel like they neglected him as far as his care goes but not completely informing him and us what the truth was. We are ALL very well trained when it comes to his health and we KNEW something wasn’t right, esp when it took over 2 hrs when we would ask to speak with a dr…OH and we was NEVER EVER in ICU!!!! Makes me wonder how these drs can live with themselves….

• R G // Jul 22, 2008 at 11:17 am

  Please pray for my mother Dorothy B. She has MRSA sepsis. She picked it up in the hospital through tubing, iv line or catheter. When you go to the hospital tell everyone who touches you to “Please wash your hands or don not touch me” this is how MRSA is spreading. Protect yourself and ask even the doctor to wash first!!!!!!!!!

• Jeanine Thomas // Jul 29, 2008 at 4:47 pm

  All too often this has been allowed to happen (for decades ) and the elderly just slipped away from being infected with hospital-acquired infections. Family members are not even told if it is MRSA, just a staph infection. I know this for a fact because this happened to me, I was never told I had MRSA and after returning to the hospital with an infection from ankle surgery , six days later I became septic and went into septic shock and mulitple organ failure. It was a miracle that I survived and I decided I had to do something about this. So many lives have been lost and so many have suffered - this was all preventable. That is why I fight as hard as I can for change and awareness.
  Jeanine Thomas
  National Spokesperson for MRSA and Founder
  MRSA Survivors Network

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