VRSA sufferer struggling back to normality

Link: News - Spalding Today

     "I think that over the period I was sedated it must have got into my head what had happened as when I woke up I didn't notice that my legs had been amputated." Sue said that Alan seemed to recover within five days but then he contracted VRSA (Vancomycin Resistant Straphy-lococccus Aureus), a more dangerous form of MRSA. But high doses of antibiotics led to Alan developing bacterial virus Clostridium. He was again treated with antibiotics but insisted on being released early to spend New Year's Eve with his wife. Alan threw himself into rehabilitation, which started in spring 2004, and was inspired by other people at the clinic.