Lots of folks get MRSA in hospitals, because that’s where they do surgeries, but MRSA is everywhere. It’s likely on your skin right now. It’s when it gets into the body that it really kicks rear.
In 1958, when I was 10, I came down with what we now call Swine Flu. Lots of folks died during that go around. I was given penicillin and it turned out that I was severely allergic to it. It is believed that a dirty needed gave me a type of Staph infection that they had no cure for. I suspect it was MRSA or a form of it.
I was in the hospital for a year. Over 70% of my body is scar tissue because of all of the surgery and skin grafts. At one point they were ready to amputate my left arm, but the fever of 108*, that I had suffered for 3 days, finally broke. Yes, I know, I should be dead or crazy... LOL
During this last go around the docs suggested that the MRSA that had tried to kill me this time, had been dormant in my body for all of these years and that my body refused to cooperate with surgery.
In any case, while it is nasty stuff, you can beat it... I did—twice.
dirty needed=dirty needle
Yikes, another horror story. Glad you’re okay now.
I’ve read that we carry all sorts of nasty microbes on our skin or in our mucous membranes. Infection is a matter of becoming susceptible to them.