baitedstorm:
Heya Sue, yes it was MRSA (I wasn't sure if many would know what it was so I spelled it like it sounds instead). I'm curious as to how long it took your mom to feel back to herself after her battle.. I'm hearing things like 2-4 weeks and even longer and it's seriously starting to freak me out a bit.
I'm certainly glad we have people like you out there doing screenings and searching constantly for different types of medicines.
I dunno if my Mom is a good gauge of recovery time, since she was about 78 when it happened, and had myriad other health issues at the time. She was in a sort of dream state when the infection had taken hold, and when her last-ditch-effort course of Vancomycin finally worked, her mental faculties came back, but she took several months to get back to herself otherwise.
But like I said, she was old and frail at the time in the first place, and had a lot of other big mountains to climb besides the infection.
You are young and vital and generally fabulous, and I would guess that you will be feeling better shortly.
It might take a couple of weeks for you to feel 100% again, but I am betting you are feeling better already. Am I right?
For those of you who don't know what MRSA is, it's a SCARY bacterial infection, (methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus) and it's scary because it is resistant to most known antibiotics, so untreated, it can and does take over and kill people in short order. Staph aureus is bad enough to begin with, (it's a blood-eating, flesh-colonizing, toxin-producing nightmare) but resistant staph aureus is absolutely terrifying. People pick it up in hospitals, mostly, because that's where it lives. There are very very few antibiotics that work for it, and hopefully there will be more coming down the pike in the very near future.
