Why didn't he get MRSA and die.....
I had a nasty MRSA in 2007, from a Medtronics Spinal Neuro-stimulator Implant. The surgical cuts healed perfectly with no sign of infection after 4 weeks. Until the 9th Week, and External non-dissolving stitching; which errantly was sewn inside, but began to find its way out of the skin. Week 10, abscesses in all 4 cuts, and then some, in non-surgical areas.
Week 10-11; gangrene set in the entire intrathecal canal, into the Kidneys, and damn near lost my own life, (but 2 mos. prior to my Brother aspirating, and he was defibbed several times, in 2 locations other than The Sherman Oaks ER)....(he aspirated due to shock only 24 hours after his own back surgery, which was fkd up by a Workman Comp LASD surgeon, who had retired and was moonlighting on LASD, LAPD, and LAFD, stiffs. The Surgeon, was 77 years old and cut every corner he could, incl. not having any LVN, RN or Dr. not even a NP, to check his vitals prior to sending him out the door of a OP Surgical Ctr.)....
To make a long MRSA story short, my LH kidney was shutdown, Doc's were intense over not only the Kidney shutdown, but Meningitis too.....not to mention total lethargy, to a point, I never would of thought of going to the ER, had it not been for Kim, as I was totally out of it, lethargic at its worse...
Abscesses to the bone, in numerous locations.....Spent 6 weeks in ICU/Quarantine, with a Pic Line; another 6 weeks at home with the Pic Line. All those 12 weeks, was having Vancomycin pumped into me & that line. As you know Tom, Vanco is the one MRSA anti-biotic which 80 percent of patients have reactions too. My only reactions came on week 10, when the Liver Panels were showing shutdown. Got Jaundice on top of the other probs.
I honestly thought I was going to die, and never make it out of that Cuckoo's nest. Some doc's thought as much.....MRSA's are hell on wheels with rockets.....as you know.
Get this, twice over the course of 2 weeks, an inmate was put into quarantine in the room besides mine. Inmates in this case, got nothing more than Tylenol, for Shiv stabbings. Those Mo-Fo's were in serious pain, moaning and groaning non-stop. 2 guards outside his door, I got fed up with both inmates, and in the middle of the night, when the moaning was louder than a Pack of Coyotes, and woke me up time and time again. I got fed up, walked to the inmates room, at the door threshold, passed by the guards, who heard me yell STFU, several times, until I could take no more. I walked into that room, just enough to be seen by those Felons Fks, and winked at the Guards. Walked by them, yelled STFU, or I'll give you some more to yell about, til I choke you out, at the top of my lungs, with my ass exposed out of the gown. I had nothing to lose since my life was already questionable.
Both guards both times, (with 2 diff inmates) said quietly "Thank You". That did the trick.
