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Posted on 08/09/2010 11:01:58 AM PDT by topher
BALTIMORE — Waking from a fog of anesthesia, Sandy Wilson found she was a patient in one of the hospitals where she worked as a nurse. She remembered having a baby, and being told she had gotten an infection. But nothing could prepare her for what lurked beneath the sheets.
Flesh-eating bacteria were eating her alive.
"When I looked down at my belly, basically all the skin was gone and I could see my internal organs," she said. "I remember seeing my intestines. I thought, 'There's no way I can live like this ... This is a death sentence.'"
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In this case, she had blood transfusions because of a blood clotting problem... The transfusions might have been the source of this infection.
Prayers for this poor woman!
wow. That is a horrifying thing.
Indeed, what a tragedy. And yes I’ve often wondered how HCW keep healthy with all the contagious sickness around them.
My fiance died of this last Oct
This is something right out of a Stephen King novel. A family friend of ours has this.. It’s downright horrifying.
Just wow!
God bless her and her son as well as her loving family who took care of her son and stood by her during this ordeal.
Her ex, based on what the story says, well, I’ll just say his character has already been determined by not standing with her during her fight to live.
I’m sorry to hear about your loss. Any speculation as to how it was contracted?
My condolences.
Agreed on her ex. What happened to “in sickness and in health”?
If you are ever in the hospital or visiting watch the doc. See if he/she cleans their hands. If not, demand they do.
That’s awful. My sincere condolences.
I’m so sorry.
DO NOT GOOGLE IMAGES FOR necrotizing fasciitis.
{shudder}
I am so very sorry for your loss. Prayers.
Apparently, those were just some weasel words he was coerced into saying in order to get married.
I wonder if he interacts with their child and if so, how he attempts to explain his abandoning of the child’s mother.
What a remarkable, courageous young woman and still intent on helping others.
Prayers for this wonderful family.
Come on. You know we gotta do it.
Very sorry for your loss clamper.
I thought that too.
I would hope that my wife would never abandon me in a similar situation.
Talk about kicking someone when they are down...
Newt Gingrich style!
God that is horrible.
Please heal her, quickly.
“What happened to ‘in sickness and in health’?”
Nothing that hasn’t happened to countless other marriages that faced far lesser challenges.
As this article and many other life stories have demonstrated, I suppose you can never really know how much love someone has for you until confronted with a situation such as this or others.
Like you, I think if I had to make a list of my fears, being abandoned by family in a time of need would probably be near the top.
The “husband” is a first class heel. (based on the limited info. the article provides us.)
Oh gosh, I’m sorry!
It really will tell you what your mate is made of. I have recently been thru some health challenges, and my husband has been the greatest gift from God I could ask for. I now know he will be with me in sickness and in health. Both my Father and Father in Law cared for their wives at the end of their lives, and it was tough, but they did it. I think there are still MANY wonderful men out there like that. But I agree, this guy is worse than a jerk.
Quite a few here are mighty judgemental concerning the woman’s husband. You all have no idea as to the particulars in this marriage -— you’re just assuming he left because she contracted this terrible disease. While that may very well be why he left, there also may be a lot more to it.
Quite a few here are mighty judgemental concerning the woman’s husband. You all have no idea as to the particulars in this marriage -— you’re just assuming he left because she contracted this terrible disease. While that may very well be why he left, there also may be a lot more to it.
The vast majority of staff do follow it, but there is always that one who doesn't, so like raybbr says, WATCH your caregivers, and ensure they wash up every time before and after they touch you or anything you touch.
It's also a good idea to do the same for yourself, too: Wash up before and after every time you touch anything or anyone that you haven't cleaned yourself.
Yes, there may be a whole lot more to the story. That’s why I prefaced my comments based on what little the article provided. Or is that not sufficient for you?
Would you rather there be no comments at all regarding the dissolution of her marriage during this life-threatening event? It is part of her “story” and the reporter thought it imposed enough additional hardship to include it as a component of the article.
If you’d like to debate the merits of your “arguments”, you might want to ping those whom you’re posting about and then engage in civil debate vs. sniping.
Quick, everybody start huffing Sterno.
Ditto those prayers, how horrible.
Thanks. Yes, I had forgotten that part. Very important that if you are a visitor that you follow precautions as well.
Especially while eating (shudder)
Holy crap. Prayers up. Very sorry to hear that.
My prayers for this poor lady.
After heart surgery and a stroke suffered during the surgery, I contracted MRSA. Because of the MRSA, my chest required 3 more entries to remove dead and dying flesh. The MRSA tried to kill me for 2 long and extremely painful months in the hospital.
It sounds like this poor lady is worse off than I was. I feel for her. If she survives this, it’s going to take a long time to recover. She will continue to have my prayers... prayers sure worked in my case.
My sincere condolences. That’s very sad.
KV at home medical care.
We use a new to us product that is safe to spray around him, clean his suction canister ect..
It kills everything up to MRSA and some hospitals willing to pay the cost are using it too now.
It’s brand name is XO and is also an odor eliminator.
(i don’t have the content name handy starts with a d)
I buy it by the gallon full strength and dilute it depending on what we are using it for around the house.
Also works great when KV goes out say to the casino for a show and comes home with his WC seating system reaking from cig smoke.
Just spray it down and it takes the smell right out..
Big help I use to use diluted bleach but could not spray that around him, this stuff is a natural product.
Non flamable (which is good where anest/o2 is being used), non toxic and I got a boat load of material when I researched it.
Also use the handsanitzer from the company that has a mild spearmint scent (very mild) and protects up to 4 hrs.
The thing is you can’t use bleach around this stuff as it kills the main ingrediant.
Excellant find IMO. No odor from it as KV is very sensitive to odors.
I was fortunate to be trained by OSHU Doernbecher decades ago.
Opening up sterile trach kits and keeping that perimeter ect...
I still use the old way of 50/50 (hydroperox/Saline) for cleaning trach canula’s and the device itself.
If KV does go to ER for an chest x ray say I take my own supplies (due to lack of at the hosp) and when we get home EVERYTHING is dumped at the hosp. that is disposible and clother/chair ect cleaned when we get in take showers.
Just got a new washer/dryer and it has a sterile cycle for bed pads/sheets.
I LOVE IT.
See my post # 36 for background.
You gave EXCELLENT ADVICE and it should be required reading for anyone that is scheduled for surgery of any kind.
Shortly after my heart surgery, a couple of days at the most, a tenured RN touched my open chest wound with he bare hands and I never saw her wash her hands in my room. I contracted MRSA, though I don’t KNOW that she gave it to me. After 30 days in the hospital, I was sent home.
A “wound specialist” came to my house. Before I could say anything, this tenured nurse touched my open wound with a bare hand. Within 4 days the MRSA went crazy again and I was ordered back to the hospital. I was there for another month.
When I returned home, I had home care for a more couple months. I informed each of the care givers that if I didn’t see them wash their hands and glove up, they would be immediately fired. Some took it fine, some seemed disgruntled.... I didn’t want to screw around, so I fired them and kicked them out of my house.
My point is... DO NOT BE BASHFUL WITH CARE GIVERS. As much as some of these great folks want to help, they can screw up and the good ones appreciate you taking an interest in keeping them in compliance of rules.
One nurse told me that a bare hand would not spread MRSA. I agreed that it might not, but anyone touching me without going by my rules was going to be fired and sued. They complied.
OMG... talk about a small world!
I am 61 years old. When I was 10, I spent a year in Doernbecher.
A rare staff infection, thought to have been caused from a needle believed to have missed the autoclave just about killed me.
Right before they were to amputate my left arm I had a fever of 108* for 3 days-—I know..I should be dead, a genius or crazy... you guess which one. LOL. ... then, the fever broke about 3 hours before the surgery was to take place.
Although this was a very painful and challenging year, I have some very fond memories of the place. I even got a visit from the Globe Trotters... I remember that being so cool.
Are their wards still set up in circles? I used to love racing wheel chairs around the circle until we got caught by the grumpy nurse that had to run to catch up to us. LOL
If you want to stay healty, stay away from the entire healthcare industry.
This young woman is incredible! Her idiot ex-hubby obviously didn’t realize that he had married up.
Maryland PING!
Good advice. If you don’t feel quite up to it, just imagine that the caregiver just handled a mess of poison ivy right before he got to your room. That should stiffen your spine right there!
I’m sorry to hear that. You have my sympathies. Sometimes, this world just sucks.
That's a really compelling reason for freepers to get all exercised about it. We all know how accurate and how ethical "reporters" are.
LOL I used to sleep on the floor under KV’s bed in those days (no where else to sleep).
And the Russian Nurse would kick me in the morning before 5am (get out of here).
In those days parents left there kids to the ward care, but not this kid.
I slept on the floor next to KV all the way.
Now adays they are very family sleep in the room friendly.
Unfortunate that KV is not young and there is no hosp. care that takes the over 21 that have survived.
Hence we rock at home. Hospitals are only good for a quicky x ray and then we split back to home care land.
Institutions suck.
Is it your intention to start making this personal?
Wow.
This is from the CDC....
The main mode of transmission to other patients is through human hands, especially healthcare workers' hands.
You nailed it.....
“The main mode of transmission to other patients is through human hands, especially healthcare workers’ hands. Hands may become contaminated with MRSA bacteria by contact with infected or colonized patients. If appropriate hand hygiene such as washing with soap and water or using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer is not performed, the bacteria can be spread when the healthcare worker touches other patients.”
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