MRSA Resources

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• Demetria Smith // Dec 29, 2006 at 9:48 pm

  I have a friend who has MRSA and is has destroyed her life. She can’t do the things she did in the past due to damage done to her right arm. She almost died twice. She contacted it while in a hospital. Is there any organization out there that can help her financially?

• Demetria Smith // Dec 29, 2006 at 9:52 pm

  My friend who has MRSA even has it in her bones, it has damaged her back and neck and she can only raise her right arm up alittle. Her hands are drawn and deformed. This has just destroyed her life and left ugly scars on her arms where surgery was done to remove the affected vains. She was in the hospital for 3 wks. and don’t remember much of what went of since her fever was so high and she was in so much pain. This illness has really caused her alot of financial problems also. Is there anyone or any organization that can send her some support or help of any kind.

• Deanna // Mar 12, 2007 at 3:28 pm

  I just have a question, If you have had this does it re-occur on a regular basis

• Jim Fuller // Mar 21, 2007 at 11:43 am

  I am treating my wife for MRSA and we are now on our second out break since Sept. What can we use to control it if there is one.!!!!!

• lowe brewington // Apr 29, 2007 at 11:09 am

  is it contagus

• Ed C. // Jun 18, 2007 at 9:31 am

  go see a dermatoligist and have them swab the nares (nostrils) of both you and your wife, and any children you have at home. If you test positive there is a cream you can put in the nostril to kill it.

• Annie O'Grady // Oct 18, 2007 at 9:50 pm

  Hello. My name is Ann and it was about 3 years ago that my 2 infant children were diagnosed with mrsa. Visit upon visit to the hospital, doctors could not figure out what these recurring and terribly painful boils on there skin were. In only a few years, mrsa has gone from practically unheard of to an epidemic. I thank God everyday that my family came out of that trial unharmed, although i did not then know the seriousness of this disease. The only antibiotic they could find that there bodies didnt reject was CLEOCIN (clendomycin) I would like to initiate mrsa awareness in my community because there are still so many people out there who have never heard of this disease, but i don’t know where to start. If somebody can PLEASE give me a few pointers, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank You.

• Jeanne Wimbley // Jan 23, 2008 at 11:42 am

  Hello,
  My name is Jeanne . I am 74 years old and had bronchitis nad Pnuemonia. In less than one month I was hospitalized again for Appendectomy and a drug caused Anapholic Shock which put me in ICU,close to death. Recovered from all that,but now have sore on leg . Dermatologist PA prescribed a cortisone cream with return after one month when I demanded to see Dermatologist I was paying for.
  It was just a small red area he decided to biopsy & sent to HIS lab. Another month,then he finally said it was”Necrotic Fascitis” It is BLACK,bigger than a pea and remains unhealed for 5 months. Different skin doctor prescribed BACTROBAN CCREAm–which worked in 05. But,my provider only pays for Generic. The Generic lacks the Calcium component, and does NOT work. The real Bactoban costs $63.00–quite a bit above my co-pay.

• c.p. philbeck // Feb 9, 2008 at 11:43 am

  i have a company called http://www.germeliminators.com that disinfects against mrsa. i also network with a company called http://www.allimax.us that cures mrsa once you have it. please spread the word, so people have hope against this dreadfull disease. thanks, c.p.

• Kristin // Apr 14, 2008 at 11:59 pm

  I recently lost my father to MRSA…it was a sudden and surprising loss, he was not diagnosed as having it until hours before he died. Does anyone know of an organization that works to raise money for research or to support those affected. I have been very involved in fund raising efforts for autism, aids, and in supporting at risk youth…I would really like to support an organization that may have been able to help my dad. Any help would be much appreciated…thank you

• Corey // May 14, 2008 at 8:54 am

  Local man battled rare type of MRSA

  BY KEVIN WOODRUFF, Wyoming County Press Examiner

  A Wyoming County man who for over the past decade has helped coordinate entertainment to the Kiwanis Wyoming County Fair each year, has been struggling for dear life.

  Corey Susz, 38, Tunkhannock, recently battled with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, more commonly known as MRSA.

  In most cases, MRSA produces boil formations and rashes on the skin, but in Susz’s case however it was much different.

  The illness affected the sciatic nerve in his hip, leaving him with no use of his right leg. Susz also ended up with sepsis, an infection of the blood that causes clotting and failure of organs.

  “I can’t ever recall in my career having seen a case of MRSA involving the sciatic nerve,” Dr. Edward Zurad, Susz’s physician, said. “His was definitely not an average case.”

  Susz recalls vividly the night it all started.

  “I woke up late one night and couldn’t walk,” Susz said. “The pain was unbelievable.”

  While the cause of his illness is unknown, Susz thinks that he may have acquired it after he had routine surgery at Robert Packer Hospital, in Sayre.

  Zurad said that MRSA is becoming much more common in rural areas.

  “MRSA used to be more commonly found in urban areas,” Zurad said. “But hospitals are seeing it quite a bit in geriatric patients, and even wrestlers who acquire it on the mat.”

  The night that Susz awoke in tremendous pain, he was taken to Tyler Memorial Hospital, in Tunkhannock, then to Robert Packer Hospital, where he remained for 10 days.

  Susz was put on an intravenous drip, given pain killers and had blood tests taken daily.

  “If it wasn’t for the doctors and nurses, things could have been very bad,” Susz said.

  As a result of the illness, Susz lost more than 40 pounds.

  He noted that the whole ordeal has been very frightening.

  “It was scary to know that I had an illness that people die from,” Susz said. “It really makes you think.”

  Susz’s illness left him bedridden and out of work for five and a half weeks.

  After Susz was released to his home from hospital care, he was confined to the use of a walker, and received home-based physical therapy.

  And even after all of that, Susz said it still hurts to walk on his right leg.

  “I still feel pain sometimes when I walk,” Susz said. “It could take up to 12 months for everything to be back to normal.”

  Although Susz was heavily medicated while in the hospital, he still remembers the pain.

  “If I would move even the slightest bit it made me scream in pain,” Susz said. “I’ve been through knee surgery in the past, but that didn’t even compare.”

  Despite the hardship that Susz has suffered, he said that he is lucky.

  “I am lucky that the infection affected the (sciatic) nerve,” Susz said. “The pain got me to the doctors a lot quicker.”

  He said that before the pain in his hip started, he only had a slight fever, which didn’t cause him much alarm.

  Zurad said that the best advice he can give for steering clear of MRSA, is hygiene.

  “Be sure not to share towels, wash your hands with pump soap, and if you have a skin lesion get it looked at,” Zurad said.

  ©The New Age Examiner 2008

• Jade // Jun 27, 2008 at 2:55 am

  My best friend died of MRSA not long ago, she was 17 years old. When is something going to be done about the state of the hospitals?

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