Katy the Terrible has an MRSA skin infection and has been chronicling it in her journal.
He said the patients who come in with it often think they might’ve been bitten by something - mosquito, spider, etc. Sometimes it can happen with a cut or a scrape or a pimple. Whatever does it, it’s just what this mutant bacteria needs to get in, and what used to be confined to dirty environments and people with poor immune systems is now spreading to the average neighborhood in perfectly healthy individuals.
If not treated, it can lead to organ failure and death (rock. on.), but I seriously doubt *anyone* would ever let it get to that point. It’s a nasty, nasty infection, and it becomes very obvious that medical attention is needed well before it gets that serious.
Think again, Katy - when you think you have the infection under control, it is silently spreading (for some of us, not all by any means). Then one day it knocks you down - hard. This is why we say to do all you can do to keep your body in good shape, and keep on top of any immunosuppressant problems you might have, like diabetes. These are the ones that are really in increased danger.
Good luck to you Katy, I hope your infection goes away as quietly as it came on. 
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Hazel // Jun 15, 2007 at 1:21 pm
My RN daughter has MRSA staph on scalp & has lost her hair. She was always known for bountiful, full, curly strawberry blonde hair. It was her best asset. Now she is bald in spots & has very short, little stubs of hair. It has taken docs two years to figure this one out. She has a problem with depression & they were so concentrated on that, they they wasted so much time thinking “I know what this is”. Talk about depression, now she has serious depression.
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