Rhoda, a person from Omaha who posted a reply on my post about webmd and mrsa has a blog.
Read it. http://www.rhoda.mrsastory.com/.
If this is real [and I am a known skeptic], this is some crazy stuff.
This post here talks about crazily insane shit I never consider a possibility:
 I took my daughter to the ER last night or a broken finger and a UTI. While we were checking her in I asked if they needed to be notified if she has MRSA.
“Has what?â€
“MRSA. M-R-S-A.â€
M-R-S-E? I can check her records.â€
“No, Mam. M-R-S-A.â€
She checks her computer and finds there is no previous note of it although we have been there before so she scribbles it on a piece of paper for us to give the admitting nurse which we dutifully did. She glanced at it and went on with getting us registered and proceeded to put us in a double room with another patient. Then when they came in to examine and work on my daughter not one of them thought or bothered to even put on gloves or wash their hands before leaving the room. I wonder if they ever did before going on to other patients.
Why didn’t I make a fuss at the time instead of calling to file a complaint today? I suppose it is because my daughter was in their hands and I hate to piss off the people who are going to make her feel better and it definitely seems to piss off medical professionals to correct them. It was 3 a.m. and I wanted to get out of there some time before day light. Whatever, I see it as unconscionable in that daylight. I should have yelled loudly to save the lady in the next bed and the patients seen after my doctor and nursed left with MRSA on their hands. Of course, I have found their attitude here in Omaha to be pretty much, Oh, we are all carriers any how!!! Which is another reason I didn’t speak up. Still wrong. I still should have. I have to be stronger than the opposition in this war even if it means staying up all night and going from hospital to hospital. I should use every opportunity to spread the word instead of the disease no matter how late at night or how mean everyone might be about being corrected. I will do better!!!! See you!
Is this possible?
Things like this exist? I mean most hospitals are Tenet-owned… I’ve seen what they do… But I never thought Rhoda’s story possible. Is it? Ooof…
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Sure it’s possible. Happens all the time.
I’m a CA MRSA carrier too. I’m immunocompromised from taking steroids to treat extreme allergies, and since I’m colonized with a particularly contagious strain, I constantly reinfect myself. This, in spite of bathing in Hibiclens (surgeons’ scrub soap), being on permananent anttibiotics (Minocycline and Cipro) and a long list of other measures. I take great care to avoid contact with others, and to avoid any other way of spreading it.
Recently I was hospitalized for 3 days with a lung infection. During that time, the hospital constantly tried to put another patient in the room with me. Every time the shift changed I’d go through it all over again. They were out of beds and half of them acted like I thought I was the Queen of England because I insisted on isolation. I’d have to explain I did NOT want to infect anyone else, especially not an already-sick patient.
I had to teach some of them what MRSA stood for. I had to explain how they needed to glove up and/or wash their hands every single time they came near me.
They finally discharged me without doing a bronchoscopy that they themselves ordered. When I asked *why?* I didn’t get much of an answer. Every one of my numberous REAL doctors were just as irritated and puzzled about this as I was.
I think they finally realized what MRSA meant, and that I’d have to be in a *private* room - which at least one staff person would angrily sniff about, every day - and they just didn’t want to *waste* the bed any more.
This was at Holy Cross in Ft. Lauderdale, FL - which was just honored as one of the *50 Best Hospitals in America.*
Go figure.
I’ve got other stories like that, too. All true.