MRSA, Staph, Staff, Mersa, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Symptoms & Treatment

Pensioner rues MRSA leg loss

Link: News - Mansfield Today

A DESPERATE pensioner who lost a leg to hospital superbug MRSA has this week pleaded with council chiefs for a new home. Frail Peggy Harvey (83) had her infected right leg amputated at King's Mill Hospital after being admitted for an operation on a broken leg. She returned to her Mansfield terraced house nine months ago but despite being confined to a wheelchair and in constant pain has not been provided with a bungalow she considers suitable. "I just can't cope anymore," she told Chad. "Much of the time I just sit here and cry because I am in so much pain.

Malta patients want more information

Link: INDEPENDENT online.

A lady I know well took care of her father after he was admitted to hospital. He had surgery, very successfully, and was discharged. A weird looking boil-like thing appeared. He was seen again at hospital, not in the ward and it was supposedly treated. He went back home. He in fact had a terrible and possibly life threatening infection. Infected matter oozed from his wounds in great quantities. The family was petrified. It was horrific. It was MRSA though this lady was not told or warned. After weeks of hassling and pressure she found out it was MRSA. She had to hassle and pressure to get the hospital to do a swab test to see what it was. And then they withheld the result from her for way longer than was decent! They only told her officially 10 weeks later. In the meantime she and others at home, who were doing their damn best to save their father from dying, could have been very badly infected. One doctor (not a hospital one) just told her that her dad might not last long. She wouldn’t accept that. She fought and fought, got the treatment and eight months later he was in the clear. Her aim was never to sue the hospital, (she knew she would never win anyway), but she remains puzzled about all the secrecy and the lack of information about the very serious reality of MRSA in our hospital. And it is not a small problem. It is a big one. The big question is, why aren’t patients told?

Drug-Resistant Staph Infections Increase - Health & Fitness

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   Kay Hill loves to spend time on the water or out on the track. "I love to go to car races," Hill said. But these days, the Durham grandmother spends much of her time in and out of doctor's offices battling an aggressive infection that has been attacking her body for the past three years. "I lost half my little finger from the infectious disease, almost lost my big toe," Hill said. She almost lost her life. The infection began after a heart valve operation. It not only involved her heart, it involved infection in her toe, infection in her finger that required amputation and a back infection that's in her spine. That infection still lingers as she's on lifelong suppressive antibiotics to keep it from coming back. It's a medical nightmare triggered by bacteria many of us carry on our hands or in our noses -- staphylococcus aureus or staph. It is usually harmless unless it makes its way into the body.

Wife says husband must be MRSA free

Link: Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt :.

      The wife of Roy Rogers, who contracted super bug Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) at the Intensive Care Unit of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital has refused to take him home until the doctors give him “a clean bill of health.” Roy was discharged from the hospital last Sunday but he remains on Ward 21. MRSA is found on the skin of many people and can cause sickness and death for patients whose immune system is compromised, such as those at hospitals. In an interview at Newsday’s Port-of-Spain office, Mary Rogers said a report was made to the health ministry yesterday and she also met with the hospital administrator and nurses at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.

Rare Illness Feared to be Spreading in the Valley

Link: ABC30.com

    Local doctors fear a rare illness known as MRSA is spreading in the Valley, and its an illness that has no consistent treatment. Jacob Marshall's mother Millie says it took just a few hours for the aggressive bacteria to settle in and take over her son's body. "Just overnight, it happened so fast that the bacteria started attacking his lungs," said Millie Marshall. Jacob had MRSA, a staph bacteria that infected his body. Jacob's mother got the first red flag when her son got a fever and his knees swelled up. His mother says doctors assume he contracted the bacteria through small cuts he had in his foot. His mother says overnight Jacob became unable to move.

Mrsa Victim Left Stranded

Link: Lancashire Evening Telegraph

      BUS bosses have launched an investigation into claims that a man disabled by MRSA was left stranded in the rain by a driver. Wheelchair-bound Norman Turner, who lost his left leg to MRSA last year, said that a Blackburn Transport driver shut the doors on him and drove off as he tried to board. His sister Lana Scott had already got on to the bus and claimed the driver said he couldn't help a disabled passenger because he had a bad back. She said she had to insist he stopped so she could walk back to be with Norman. Mr Turner said that at the time he was trying to come to terms with his loss of mobility and the driver's "insensitive" actions were like a "slap in the face."

MRSA teen up for national award

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      AN INSPIRATIONAL 17-year-old Woolwich girl with cystic fibrosis has been shortlisted for a national award for her achievements. Emma Boniface, from Shooters Hill, is among 24 young nominees due to attend the star-studded Breathing Life Awards, organised by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, tomorrow. The awards are to celebrate the exceptional achievements, in sport, the arts, the community and academia, of young people with the life-threatening disease. Despite coping with her condition and contracting MRSA, Emma has always kept her spirits high. In addition to studying beauty therapy at Shooters Hill Post-16 Campus she works voluntarily at King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, to promote understanding between patients and staff.

Amputee Albert in Nursing Home Hell

Link: News - Grantham Today

       Amputee Albert Willets has been living in a nursing home since November because South Kesteven District Council has no accommodation suitable for him. Retired carpenter Mr Willets, 67, had his right leg amputated above the knee because of an MRSA infection that developed while in hospital for a hip replacement. After the surgery he went to Harrison House Nursing Home, Dysart Road, Grantham, to recover. Mr Willets asked SKDC to convert his council bungalow in Ropsley, but was told it can not be converted for wheelchair access because of problems fitting access ramps and difficulty manoeuvring a wheelchair inside. He is still at Harrison House, using his pension to pay �121 a week to stay there while also paying the rent on his home, waiting for the council to find him a ground-floor flat. His family is unable to take him in because their homes also have access problems.

MRSA victim facing more trauma

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A vet who contracted MRSA three years ago during surgery on her ankle, is now facing the prospect of having her leg amputated. Fiona Care, from Manorowen, Goodwick, caught the devastating bug after she broke her ankle trying to catch a sheep. She had surgery on the joint at Withybush Hospital, which is when she believes she contracted MRSA.

"I don't actually have MRSA anymore. The problems I am having are all as a result of the damage it has done to my leg. "The bug ate away at my flesh and bone, leaving me with an open wound that will not heal, despite two skin grafts. "Sometimes I feel very angry that this could have happened to me. A prosthetic limb is the only way forward for me now."

MRSA - the lingering damage

Link: News - Hartlepool Today

    A MAN who almost died in an horrific motorbike accident still needs more surgery - nearly three years after the smash. And today, Hartlepool man Leslie Allan - who originally needed over 40 pints of blood after the horror smash - urged more people to come forward and become blood donors. His bike smashed into a parked car outside his home, in Tredegar Walk, in July 2003. He said: "I'm so thankful to all those people who give blood. They saved my life.'' But the 40-year-old also revealed how he still needs surgery on a hole in his stomach. He explained: "I'll never be completely recovered because when I was in hospital I contracted MRSA. "It meant that when they finished all the operations on my stomach, they couldn't stitch it back together properly and the stomach muscle just won't heal. "I have a hole in my stomach muscle about four inches big. Last year I had an operation at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, to try to fix it, but it didn't work. "I'm due to go for another operation to try to sort it out again. I'm on the waiting list, it should be May or June time, in South Tyneside hospital.''