kathylovesred
Frustration
Dec 30, 2009
I thought I was home free. I came out of the hospital with C-Diff. (clostridium differens) Essentially,your gut is supposed to have about 80% good guy bacteria and 20% bad guy bacteria. Antibiotics given during surgery killed all my good guys and my bad guys took over. Let's just say it's not pretty....and I thought that was my only complication. After all, I'm nearly 8 months out at this point.But the weather took a bad turn and my immune system must have had a little dip, allowing the MRSA (methycillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus - aka flesh eating bacteria) I apparently picked up in the hospital to surge. About a month ago, I started having these little boils here and there on my trunk. Then one big bad boy wouldn't resolve itself, like the others had. While I was in Denver for Christmas, I showed my daughter, who's an RN. She recoiled, advised me that it was necrotic (nice word, huh?), and told me that I needed to see a doctor.
I did, yesterday. He agreed with her assessment, sliced the thing open to drain it and have it cultured, and prescribed me big-time antibiotics. So - maybe - this will now resolve. That's the hopeful upside. The downside is that I may risk a recurrence of the C-Diff, and may even get a yeast infection to boot.
Such lovely crap. Happy New Year, indeed!
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About Me
Helena, MT
Location
31.6
BMI
Surgery
05/18/2009
Surgery Date
Nov 07, 2007
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