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MRSA after a c/section-scaryFrom: GIN11153@aol.comSun Oct 28 03:11:17 2007
_http://tinyurl.http://tin_ (http://tinyurl.com/2ncx6u) IN FOCUS October 18, 2007 Hospitals and Superbugs: Go in Sick... Get Sicker "All seemed fine, except "my temperature never went back to normal after surgery," Gehrke says. During her first few days at home, she had a low-grade fever that hovered around 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and she noticed a lump had formed below her incision. By the fourth day, the lump had ballooned to the size of a lime, her fever had jumped to 103 degrees F and her incision was intensely painful. "It was like someone had taken a burning match and stuck it inside" the cut skin, Gehrke says. She immediately went to see her doctor, who took out the staples (as is customary a few days after a C-section) and examined the growing bulge under the wound. He dismissed the pain as normal..." ... MRSA causes some 94,000 invasive infections in the U.S. each year, resulting in almost 19,000 deaths—more than those caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)—said a study published this week in JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association. And "the majority of these cases appeared to be health care–acquired,MRSA causes some 94,000 invasive infections in the U.S. each year, resulting in almost 19,000 deaths—more than those caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV Learning the infection was MRSA, Gehrke's gynecologist immediately switched her to a stronger antibiotic and put her on bed rest; nurses from the Visiting Nurses Association came to her house daily to pack the wound in gauze and check her vital signs. But the swelling remained and the wound continued to ooze pus. After three months of this, the wound still had not healed. At the advice of her ob/gyn's partner (who was filling in for her doctor that day), Gehrke went to see doctors at Indian River Hospital's wound care facility. They told her she needed a second operation to remove the tissue destroyed by the infection. Surgeons reopened her incision and discovered a festering infection that had caused extensive damage. It was "like looking at a hole in your belly [that is] seven inches wide and six-and-a-half inches deep," she recalled in an interview with ScientificAmerican.After three months of this, the wound still had not healed. At the advice of her ob/gyn's partner (who was filling in for her doctor that day), Gehrke went to see doctors at Indian River Hospital's wound care facility. They told her she needed a second operation to remove the tissue destroyed by the infection. Surgeons reopened her in Gehrke survived but it took seven months when all was said and done for the infection to clear up and the wound to heal. She says she was bedridden for a total of six months and racked up $13,000 in out-of-pocket expenses for home care and procedures associated with her infection.
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