You know people do survive all the time from MRSA pneumonia's. There are various
risk factors and of course it depends on what it is sensitive to or not, etc,
etc.
You are also not necessarily stuck with it for life....only if you are colonized
and not treated. I am at a week long Infection Prevention and Control seminar
this week. Check out the web site APIC.org for some accurrate info and check it
frequently as things added all the time. A HUGE group of like minded medical
people who are and have been for yeaqrs trying to educate peopel on the spread
and prevention of MRSA and other infectious illness.

To your health,
Mary Ann, RN
www.juiceplus.com/+mb00020
www.wesharejuiceplus.com

-----Original message-----
From: Cyndi Olsen cyndingary@...
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:09:39 -0700
To: MRSA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MRSA] MRSA Pneumonia survivor

> I am a MRSA pnemonia survivor too. I think we are the only 2. When I joined
this group, I asked if anyone had it in their lungs and no one had.
> So I think it's you & me.
> I was on zyvox for 2 weeks initially and then wound up air lifted to
Stanford...had all kinds of IV anti-biotics and went home on zyvox for 2 months.
I thought it was all behind me.
> Then I found out that MRSA is with you for life! So I went to a naturopath
whio came highly recommended. He gave me stuff to help keep me from getting it
again.
> I did get it again last summer - I had gone off the stuff from my naturopath
and I got sick. But this time I was able to beat it without the drugs - by using
what my naturopath gave me. I stayed closely monitored by other other docs as
well, to make sure it was gone.
> I am doing well now.
> I don't know anything about vancomyacin - but it sounds like others are
concerned that you weren't on it long enough...I wasn't on the zyvox long enough
intitally and a week after I went off it I almost died - so please call your doc
or get a second opinion.
> I am sorry you lost your dad to it - you know that Cameron Diaz lost her dad
to it recently too.
> Welcome to the group...stay well.
> Cyndi ~
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