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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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.
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