Replies to '04/01 The Superbug'

Quote From: pkgobble1

 Last year my daughter had a kidney stone...i took her to the emergency room and then a few weeks later she developed a lesion..she showed it to a dr friend and he said that it was a boil and it is caused from being overweight....my daugter tld him she had never had one and she had been overweight most of her adult life....then i insisted on her seeing our regular family dr...when she examined kelly she tld her that she thought it was a boil..by then several had came and went...kelly voiced her concerns that it cld be mrsa and the dr said no that is not what it is and gave her medicine...after taking all the medicine they kept coming back and she called the dr and she gave her another round...still came back...then my granddaughter who is six asked me to look at her back...i thought she might have hurt herself, but within a few days there was one on her thigh and the one on her back was an open wound and puss filled...that was on a sunday and i tld my daughter that i wanted her in the dr. office monday morning...when a culture was ran it was mrsa...kelly called the family dr to tell her that now her daughter has mrsa and that she  had it all along...then the dr. asked what the child was given and she perscribed that for kelly...they bought now have bruises where the lesions were...they were tld that it wld take months for these to clear up...and what really bothers me, if my granddaughter hadn't have gotten this my daughter wld still be self medicating herself for this...she was treating them as if they were boils...why aren't dr's more educated abt this and what to look for...i have to agree with oprah when she says if something is bothering you listen to your heart....kelly's heart tld her it was mrsa and she tried to tell the dr, but she was just brushed off...if she had been listen too my granddaugher wld not have had to gone thru this....and another thing that is frightening is that a nursing student that works at our local hospital said so many patients were coming in for something else and then when they leave they develop mrsa and now the insurance is refusing to pay for them to be rehospitalized to treat the mrsa...they are telling the hospitals to take responsibility...

karen gobble