We have a new story posted on MRSA Resources, this is the story of Rhoda’s experience with MRSA in her daughter, who was battling addiction, Graves Disease and Fibromyalgia at the time she caught MRSA.
Hi. My name is Rhoda and I am the mother of three beautiful daughters and five granddaughters and one grandson. My oldest daughter is 30 years old and has been a Military wife and a junkie for most of the last ten years. Until she gave birth to an addicted baby two years ago and her husband divorced her to get the girls back. She left his house and went on a downward spiral that ended with her in Jail for one year for changing a doctor’s prescription. She was released September first 2006 and came out saying she was going to stay clean of drugs but horrified that she had gained a good fifty pounds while in jail. I know she started doing meth again thinking it would get the weight off of her and that she would keep it under control and quit after losing the weight. She started out smoking Meth and then slipped back into shooting it up and heroin until she was headed right back to where she had barely gotten out alive before, going from flop house to flop house, where ever the drugs and her boyfriend were.
A few days after I had taken her to a little blue house in west Council Bluffs to spend the night with her boyfriend and others there she called me and said that she had some big spider bites that were freaking her out. She came over and when I saw them I took her to the ER. They were all on her backside and huge with a raised white area in the middle where there was a dark dot. The ER doctor took one look and backed up pretty quick and said Yep! These are spider bites! Notice the dark spot in the center where the bite took place…they will soon start to drain… and went on with spider bite information and he prescribed four weeks of bactrum.
Read the rest of Rhoda’s MRSA story, and the rest of the MRSA stories we have posted as well. If you would like to submit one, please feel free to email me.
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2 responses so far ↓
Rhonda // Dec 16, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Rhoda,
I am in tears after reading your post.How very blessed your daughter is to have YOU for her Mother.I hope things are going well for all of you.I am a 36 year old single mother that struggles with my own “issues” and just recently tested positive for mrsa.My entire family has basically abandoned me at this point.I feel like a walking,spreading,contagious disease.The outstanding support and unconditional love you are giving Jami is a gift that not enough people have!God bless you and yours.Always.
Brook Chapman // Dec 19, 2007 at 10:17 am
you family shold not have abandoned you they should be by your side because its a life threatening diease.
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