2 months later he once again broke out and she sent him back to the ER. The doctor looked up her husband’s records and noticed that it said MRSA positive. And no one called to let them know these results. Knowing that, the doctor put him on a medication that would work, but the meds only work to clear up the infected sore. All he told them was to keep it clean and finish all his meds. Nothing else. Since then her husband has gone back to the ER many times to get his sores drained and then packed with gauze.

Now here they are over a year later and what has happened since then. A month ago Michelle’s daughter broke out with 2 sores on her belly. Knowing what her husband looked like they took her straight to the hospital. The doctor that saw her daughter that night said it was spider bites. She took no culture at all even though they told her daughter that Michelle’s husband has MRSA. Within 3 days her sores got so much worse so we took her back out. The doctor they saw then was a GOD send. He took one look and knew right away that it was MRSA. He put her on the right meds and cultured it to be sure. 3 days later doctors called saying her daughter was positive.
A week after Michelle’s mother in law broke out with a sore, and a week after her Michelle herself broke out. They both tested positive. Worrying about their other 2 children they got them tested as well and they are also positive. They continue to break out at least once a month each. Right now Michelle’s husband has to have surgery on his recent one to clean it out.

She knows that if only the doctors would have informed them about MRSA and how it is spread over a year ago when her husband was diagnosed, their children, herself and her mother would be MRSA free.

Since Michelle’s curiosity about her MRSA case, she then went to her doctor that the kids see out at the Divine clinic to ask her questions. When she asked her about telling the schools her kids attend Michelle was in shock when she told her not to because she would cause a panic. She did anyways. What an awful doctor to say something like that. Not only would they have been putting all your kids in harm way of getting it but the teachers as well. Don’t worry parents, they now home school their children for your child’s safety and theirs. If her child gets your child’s cold or flu it could mean a hospital stay for theirs because MRSA weakens the immune system.

An Open Letter to the Newspaper

Michelle is outraged that the government hasn’t said a word about this. Especially when she was told from EVERY doctor she spoke to that MRSA is spreading like wild fire through Williamsport and surrounding areas. People need to know what they are in harm of and how to PREVENT it. This has even affected her husband’s jobs. He has lost 2 in the past year due to this. Mainly because he gets so sick and when he breaks out he is the most contagious and not to mention in pain.

She knows that there are many people out there that have MRSA and she asks whoever who are interested in starting a support group Williamsport Michelle to join and send emails to her at allthawaynavy5@aol.com. For those who are interested in learning more and reading others stories you may also visit the support site online at www.mrsasupport.co.uk. She believes there is A LOT more to learn.

As social human beings, it is our duties to inform and let others know about this MRSA issues, as it is for the sake of all.

Almost died from MRSA 2 years ago, Randleman infected by the staph again and was hospitalized for 3 weeks.  Two of his organs was shut down as he battled to remain alive.

“I was in critical condition for almost three weeks and I am two weeks out of the hospital now.” He continued, “pain is just part of the healing, and it hurts a lot.”

Bellow are images from Kevin Randleman Blog, showing how widespread the infection are.

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The fact is that MRSA bacteria have spread fast into her body and bite repeatedly. In less than 60 hours all her fingers were quite gone by the bacteria. Tanya was infected by flesh-eating bacteria and 9 doctors worked hard to safe her life. Undoubtedly, the doctors saw clearly how it jumped from Tanya’s arm to her breast

The doctors immediately decided to amputate her arm and right shoulder, until then realized the bacteria has spread to her right breast. The only one way to keep her alive they then decided to continue amputating all her infected bodies.

It is a miracle for Tanya survives though she must remove her nine kgs flesh and muscles to clean it up from the bacteria. Still remains from her is just thin skin covering her ribs and right lung. “prick of pin can easily touch my lungs and kill me,” as Tanya showed her skin and bones as qouted from doctoroz.com Thursday, Oct 1st 2009.

She returned to Council Bluffs and called from time to time telling me about different people talking about how to lance the bites and that she was draining them for her boyfriend.

Knowing that Rhoda had been diagnosed with CA-MRSA, her father was extremely upset because he already knew some about it being spread by needle sharing and that it was considered an STD, too.

She then started searching any info on the internet, and found herself cry so hard knowing the truth. She thought this was even getting worse since her drug addict doesn’t keep her in good health or good financial condition. As well as she has an autoimmune disease makes her even more likely to catch it, and she has Graves Disease and Fibromyalgia already.

It was very hard for her since she lived with her daughter. She was getting thinner and more depressed, she lost custody of all three of her daughters. Until the MRSA, her husband had been thinking about getting out of the Air Force after becoming a single father but really seemed to make the decision after the MRSA popped up and he moved to Minnesota last month with the girls. He had started carrying sanitary wipes and lotions and supplied the rest of us with them, too, once he did some reading online.

Rhoda tried isolate herself from the community, because she knew about ten people infected within a very small area who not only had CA-MRSA but who all seemed to be ignorant of precautions they should take to protect others or even how serious it was to take the full amount of antibiotics prescribed. Even her daughter would split her antibiotics with her boyfriend until she realized she had to be able to treat both of them to save her daughter.

Four months later Jami called Rhoda and said that her daughter had one that she couldn’t get to drain because it is hurting her so. Rhoda went there to help her daughter. Jami sat up in bed and pulled her gown up and her robe down just exposing the boil under her right breast and Rhoda tried to get at it but her clothes kept getting in the way. They worked hard on it and ended up being too deep to drain so she had to go to the ER and get it lanced.

It was not just that MRSA case shocked Rhoda, Jami told her that she was pregnant also. Rhoda then started praying to God to help them on this
Somehow they were already being blessed. That ER trip changed everything. Jami is no longer addicted to drugs. Rhoda went to visit her for the first time since hearing she is pregnant and she looked wonderful. Since stopping shooting up the Meth, Jami gained about ten pounds, and is taking the antibiotics and I didn’t see one boil on her.

She knows she likely won’t be able to keep this baby because she used Meth during the first month of pregnancy and she already has a police record for this. And she is struggling to get off of the heroin which might be easier now that she isn’t in constant pain from the boils. She is pro choice but can’t bring herself to have an abortion but is comforted that Rhoda has the means and is more than willing to take custody of this child if she carries him/her full term. Rhoda and Jami still snuggle up together like she is a little girl sometimes and talk about the new baby and there is Life in Rhoda’s daughter again in the midst of this tragedy.

All that Rhoda hopes is that Jami stays free of the boils and can get off of all of the drugs. She thinks of Jami’s Meth addiction and will do whatever she can to help her daughter, doctor’s care if necessary.

Rhoda thinks that this long story into the problem of drug addiction might be useful for people who have contracted this through sharing needles and moreover share the problems if they see this.