Meat MRSA/superbug

[tekobari]

This is what Mike was talking about just yesterday, I think. I can't find that thread, so I'm starting a new one.

Scary.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31766160/ns/health-food_safety//

[Hepburn]

Time to become a vegetarian? Oh wait. Even that gets salmonella all over it due to workers shitting in the fields or other unclean conditions.

This is why I want my own farm. Small one. Grow my own.

Progress means taking pills for this, for that, for everything else. It means feeding cattle that like grasses get meat from other dead animals; adding additives to make food bigger, thicker, faster growing; etc etc etc.

I think the next superbug that wipes most of the humans out will be man made..deliberately...for war...but it escapes. Kinda like Captain Tripps in Stephen King's The Stand.

So much for progress, eh?

[tekobari]

Having surgery or any other invasive procedure in a hospital, scares me. It's so easy for horrible things to happen. I think I told you about my friend's sister who had a baby last week and lost her one leg and the other foot. Terrifying. Just a normal, no-problem, delivery. I'll bet if she'd had it at home that wouldn't have happened. It's like the 20's again. You go to the hospital to die. Or the grocery store...

[Powerhouse]

....I think the next superbug that wipes most of the humans out will be man made..deliberately...for war...but it escapes.....

This is more along my thinking on the subject. Mother Nature has long proven that she can be as nasty as Man when she chooses, but I think that we will do it to ourselves instead, and by accident in one of those gene splicing - "I wonder what we happen if we combine this and this" moments.

We will probably see some natural based life altering events before that happens - volcano eruption in Yellowstone or something impacting like that - but for wiping out the whole human race - that is man-kinds forte.

Last one out - turn off the lights.

[boardbimbo]

I picked up MRSA , and was informed of it during my last hospitalization. I think I got it during my first or second surgery--I know I has a staph infection. Anyway, I am colonized for MRSA and did get a blood infection (and later cellulitis) and was on vancomycin and, at home, Xyvox (my co-pay for Xyvox was $800. Yes. Eight hundred dollars.) I was told, by way of commiseration, that at least I did not get a flesh-eating staph infection!

[Zilvy]

At one of the top Orthopedic Surgery Hospital in Boston, they have you come in a week before surgery and you get a complete physical work up. If you have MRSA you are given specific guidelines for sanitizing. You are also put in a single room (your insurance only pays for double occupancy) the hospital takes up the difference. Special precautions are taken with the MRSA patient so that no cross contamination will take place with other patients.

This hospital does not deal with emergency surgery, only pre qualified, pre examined patients.

[boardbimbo]

Yep. I spent six weeks in a private room at Bayhealth, on their new "designer" floor. I suspect my surgeon already knew I was MRSA-positive because they put me in a private room from the very start of my admission. Complete with a living room section with sofa and armchair, and a DVD player. Too bad that after the surgeries I could no longer get out of bed by myself. I might have had fun with the DVD player (as it was, I had to console myself with Headline News 24 hrs/day).

The REAL gripe I had with that hospital was that they never told me they transfused me with two pints during the fifth surgery. :And that when they brought my dinner tray they left it out in the hallway (remember, I had to go to rehab to learn to walk again). My clear liquid diet was stone cold where it should have been hot, and melted where it was supposed to be frozen (I think I have gone on about this plenty long enough. I am going to start giving myself flashbacks).:i-roller:

[Powerhouse]

Hi, BB! It's really great to see that you are back and posting again. :KaoC010:

[tekobari]

BB, last summer my husband broke his "hip" (femur) in several places. His care was awful. Simply awful. The surgeon was great, but the day to day care was worthy of garbage. They didn't even send him to PT--just discharged him. He not only couldn't walk, he had no clue how to do it since they'd only given him a pair of crutches at discharge and didn't even show him how to use them.

Everything, start to finish, was disgusting. If I hadn't fought them tooth and nail at every turn, I think he'd be dead now. And that's known as one of the best teaching hospitals in northern Cal.

I'm glad you're alive after all that happened to you, and all they did to you.

[boardbimbo]

Thank you, Powerhouse!

It is appalling what passes for medical care these days. I will never forget at Bayhealth one night I had to use the bathroom. I refused to lie on a bedpan, since they leaked so easily, and they hurt my lower back. Two giggling CNAs (I think they were high) came in, helped me onto the commode, put the call button out of reach and left me there for two hours. I was in so much pain I thought I would die.

[Hepburn]

Reminds me of when I had my hysterectomy. Bitch nurse (night nurse) would come in to wake me up to ask how I felt being spayed. I, too, wouldnt use the bedpan. The gal next to me that also had the same procedure would help me get out of bed and go to the pot..and I would help her when I got strong enough myself. That nurse was horrible. Mean and horrible. I told the doctor about it and he said that was just her nature. Um hm. Well..most of yall know me, dontcha? It didnt last long, that abuse. I finally had enough, told them I was checking out and they said I couldnt cuz I had staples still in my belly (I had what was called a bikini cut) and I said "then take them out cuz Im leaving", so they did. I saw bitch nurse as they rolled me out in a wheel chair and as I passed her, I said "hey bitch. You had your day when I was weak and dependent. In a few weeks, I wont be weak any more. Ill come see ya, k? Show you a little "love", just like you showed me".

She gaped. I smiled. A few weeks later....I called the hospital to check on her schedule. She was no longer there. She was fired.

A few years later, the hospital closed up due to lack of funding.

[tekobari]

BB, that's horrible. Just horrible. But I'm not surprised anymore. They always bitch about how they don't get paid what they're worth, but they make over $55,000 starting plus a bonus here. That's for real nurses, of course. Not aides, which might have been what we're all complaining about.

Hep, SPAYED??? I'm so glad she was fired. SO glad!

[Hepburn]

The gal in the bed next to me said she did the same to her until a new helpless victim came along. Me. Stupid bitch had no clue who she was fucking with. And shes damn lucky I was weak.
Thats not the half of what she did. She would come in late at night, wake me up to say she wanted to take my temperature. If I didnt rouse fast enough (I was on vicodins cuz I dont like morphine), she would slam stuff around. I think the next night after surgery, she had a fit and the blinds fell off the wall. Next morning, I showed the day nurse. She just rolled her eyes and said "yeah, shes a mean one" and I said "yeah, well, shes a coward. She only picks on people that cant fight back. YET".

The bathrooms were horrible too. We had to share ONE between two rooms with 4 beds total. All of us hysterectomy gals. Blood on the seat, trash can overflowing with padding and fluids, etc. We all tried to clean it the best we could, but none of us could stand up straight for long periods of time, ya know? So we didnt do very good. But we tried. Nurses aids couldnt be bothered and bitch nurse was too busy bullying and the good nurses must have been on another floor cuz I never met any during my stay.
I just wish I couldve visited the bitch before she was fired. I regret being given that honor.

[Hepburn]

NOT being given. She had 4 bitchslaps coming to her. One from each of us in those two rooms.

[Hepburn]

Okey dokey. Enough chat from me, lol. Off to yet another new doctor and his assistant to discuss swallering that thar camera eventually.

Yall have a good day!

[Hepburn]

One last post....

Talking about this made me think of that gal sharing my room. She cried and cried, cuz she had to have a hysterectomy. She wanted kids. Me..I was glad all the baby making gadgets were gone. That nurse did the same to her that she did to me...but she got a reaction from that gal. Which is what she was hoping for. Spayed.
I hope that bitch suffers for what she did. Chickenshit coward. And I hope that gal, wherever she is...adopted and is happy.

Ok..NOW Im off for consultation. Yippee. Not.