Bout with Staph

[Full Quiver]

Glad your'e ok. Any staph is nasty stuff. I also had a bout with MRSA last year. Have had Brown Recluse bites & they're a peice of cake compared to the staph. I agree with the "try not to take to many antibiotics" guy's. I think they kill all the good germs too. I try to remember the rubber gloves with all wild game till the meats been in the freezer a couple of weeks. Our modern ever mobile society spreds germs so fast our immune system can't keep up. Thats my theory.

[OconeeDan]

Thanks for the lesson, glad you are recovering.

[Izzy]

Thanks for the reminder.Glad your well again.

[Bill Turner]

This is the type of info we need to share to protect each other. Thank you for taking the time to share and remembering your brothers of the bow. May God bless you and speed your recovery.  

[Recurve50LBS]

Watts,

First off I'd like to say that I'm happy things worked out of you by ending on a positive note.

I too had a battle with a staph infection just over 18 months ago. My stay in the hospital was just about as long as yours. I had gotten a scratch on my right hand that I didn't think much of. I kept it clean but it started getting worse and worse. I also developed a fever so I decided to visit my doctor.

He examined me and looked at my hand. Just like you said happened to you I developed a dark area the size of a silver dollar around my scratch and my hand was swelling.

Doctor put my on oral antibioticts and told me that if things got worse give him a call. Well I called him at 1AM, told him that my and was a lot worse, swollen, very painful and that I now had red lines running up my arm to my elbow. He told me to get to the ER and that I would be admitted for treatment. At that point I would have agreed to just about anything just to make the pain go away.

The ER doctor, a very young 27 year old told me that I may loose my arm!

To make a long story short I was admitted on  Tuesday morning. The only bed space they had was in the Oncology ward with cancer patients. I left the hospital that Friday, in time to pick my son up for the weekend.

Three good things happened while I was there. I got to keep my arm and it was all better, The meds took care of the cold I had been fighting since October. I was in the hospital in March. And the last good thing that happened was that I quit smoking.