Just lost a great friend last month to a MRSA secondary infection that spread from a bed sore to his heart while he was in a crappy nursing facility. The last hospital did all they could and he was in gown and glove isolation while there, but the nursing facility was rife with MRSA as they used minimal protocols to isolate patients. It isn’t the hospitals that are only problematic as they at least have good protocols for the containment. A bedridden patient with a bed sore being turned every few hours by nursing facilities lackingg the infection reducing protocol is just spinning the chamber of the gun of MRSA. Once the spread of MSRA to the torso you are in very deep trouble. My friend was admitted to three hospitals and four nursing care facilities over three months without being discharged. He got the MSRA in the third nursing care facility. The hospitals just hot potatoed him from one place to another until he got very ill as they didn’t wish to tie up a bed with someone who just had an infected bed sore. The system failed by this attitude and my friend paid with his life. Some of the treatments were frankly medieval to try to get the antibiotics to work. He was kept conscious during horrible pain and spasms and uncontrollable shaking to give feedback to the doctors of pain responses. I sat with him for three hours during one the worst ones and it was wrenching for me and horrible for him. At the end, the doctors didn’t even tell him he was dying until days after they told us, truly cowardice on that point.
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