Hospital Stay.

So,
My youngest bambina was in the hospital for a week!
Mos Def,
one of the longest weeks of my life.
It started with a pimple on
the bambina's chin.
Which turned into what looked like a spider bite.
When the skin around it started to get red and swollen,
i took her to the doctor [Friday].
She was given antibiotics and sent home.
The next day,
She woke up very swollen and the redness was spreading,
i called the doctor.
Her normal pediatrician was off for the weekend,
his partner spoke with me.
He said not too much to worry about.
Around 4:00pm
i called again.
Chaz got up from her nap, and the redness was halfway across her chin and
up across her jaw.
I said we're going to the hospital
and called the doctor.
We waited in the ER for 2.5 hours.
Finally got in the treatment room,
they started an iv with antibiotics.
By 11pm,
i was calling daddy to pick up my big bambina
because the little one was being admitted.
The second day in the hospital and the infection covered
half her chin all the way up behind her ear.

A week of antibiotics, no sleep, and hospital food later,
and we're finally back at the homless shizzle.
Yay for us.
The bambina was diagnosed with "MRSA"
the one thing i was trying sooo
hard to keep her from getting!
Ain't life grand.

♥

MRSA

Once again I had to go to the hospital last night.
I swear I am so sick of this shit. If it's not me they're cutting on, it's my hubby. =/
The "condition" is called "MRSA" or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It's a strain of staph that's resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. MRSA can be fatal.

What Happens:
Staph skin infections, including MRSA, generally start as small red bumps that resemble pimples, boils or spider bites. These can quickly turn into deep, painful abscesses that require surgical draining. Sometimes the bacteria remain confined to the skin. But they can also penetrate into the body, causing potentially life-threatening infections in bones, joints, surgical wounds, the bloodstream, heart valves and lungs

How it happens:

MRSA is a strain of staph that's resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it.

Staph bacteria are normally found on the skin or in the nose of about one-third of the population. If you have staph on your skin or in your nose but aren't sick, you are said to be "colonized" but not infected. Healthy people can be colonized and have no ill effects. However, they can pass the germ to others.

Staph bacteria are generally harmless unless they enter the body through a cut or other wound, and even then they often cause only minor skin problems in healthy people. However, staph infections can cause serious illness. This most often happens in older adults and people who have weakened immune systems, usually in hospitals and long term care facilities. But in the past several years, serious infections have been occurring in otherwise healthy people in the community, for example athletes who share equipment or personal items.

Antibiotic resistance
Although the survival tactics of bacteria contribute to antibiotic resistance, humans bear most of the responsibility for the problem. Leading causes of antibiotic resistance include:

• Unnecessary antibiotic use. Like other superbugs, MRSA is the result of decades of excessive and unnecessary antibiotic use. For years, antibiotics have been prescribed for colds, flu and other viral infections that don't respond to these drugs, as well as for simple bacterial infections that normally clear on their own.
• Antibiotics in food and water. Prescription drugs aren't the only source of antibiotics. In the United States, antibiotics can be found in livestock. These antibiotics find their way into municipal water systems when the runoff from feedlots contaminates streams and groundwater.
• Germ mutation. Even when antibiotics are used appropriately, they contribute to the rise of drug-resistant bacteria because they don't destroy every germ they target. Bacteria live on an evolutionary fast track, so germs that survive treatment with one antibiotic soon learn to resist others. And because bacteria mutate much more quickly than new drugs can be produced, some germs end up resistant to just about everything. That's why only a handful of drugs are now effective against most forms of staph.

So if you didn't want to read all that...
MRSA is basically a bacteria or staph that is resistant to most antibiotics. So when is forms under your skin the only way to fix it...
Let the people at the hospital "Numb" the area, [which hurts like hell!] then take a scalpel and lance (or cut) open the area and drain out the poison[staph].
The whole process hurts like nothing i've ever experienced. Including having kids. =[
This was my second time being treated. The first time I waited so long that I had to have surgery on my side, so now there is a huge scar there.
This time it was on my left breast, so they just lanced it.
I screamed through the whole thing. talk about PAIN.
My hubby has had it done 4 times total.
It's really N O fun.

So in short I'm trying to get the word out, because alot of people don't know.
This condition can be very dangerous to children because their immune systems aren't strong enough to fight it. It can be FATAL.

MRSA is not contagious, so don't alienate someone if they have it. But if you know someone who does, DON'T SHARE towels, razors, or personal items. It is passed from one person to another from cuts or small openings on the body.

FOR MORE iNFORMATiON ViSiT: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mrsa/DS00735
or just google: MRSA