My husband got what looked like a pimple on his thigh. Within 2 days it was swollen up like a golf ball and very red and painful. Being in the medical field, I had a feeling what it was and immediately got him to the doctor. And just in time too. She lanced it, drained it, started him on antibiotics and immediately admitted him to the hospital. He was there for 3 days. When we got home, I had to change the packing every day and repack it with strips of Dakins-soaked packing material. (Dakins is sort of like a diluted bleach solution, and it smells just like bleach too, and burns just as bad). It took over 4 weeks to start healing, but it finally started getting smaller and smaller every day.

6 months later, I got what I thought was bronchitis (might I add that I am a lung cancer survivor and have just one lung on my right side,)pulse ox was so low he admitted me STAT and strated me on IV antibiotics, breathing treatments, the works. I was in the hospital for 11 days in isolation. The staph (MRSA) had *colonized” in my nasal cavity for 6 months and then moved to my lung. It was rough. I was so sick I hallucinated.

I used every sterile procedure when I was caring for my husband, except a mask. Now I know better.

And now the doc says my hubby is pre-diabetic. Scary stuff.

Sorry for taking up so much space with my little documentary here, but I though you guys might like to hear just how contagious and nasty this stuff can be.

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. LOVE TO ALL.

Like or Dislike: 1  0