You are totaly wrong Mary Ann about not being colonized for life -
you must assume that you are and act accordingly. I work with the
leading MRSA experts in the world and core investigators on MRSA. You
and other APIC members continue to want to cover up the MRSA epidemic
and play down the seriousness of it to patients because APIC, SHEA
and the CDC have virtually done nothing about the epidemic in over
40 yrs. Have you looked at APIC's goals and mission statements? Not
one mention of patients or consumers - it's all about them and now
the campaign is on to get consumers to wash their hands when
healthcare workers hand hygiene compliance is only 40% and
shockingly, doctors only 30%. You APIC members have alot of work to
do to clean up your own house and stop blaming the public for this
healthcare diaster. If healthcare facilities are not screening for
MRSA, using gloves and gowns, strict adherence to hand hygiene,
decontaminating surfaces and prudent use of antibiotics, we will
never get this epidemic ( or other HAI's) under control. APIC has
never been a leader and it's inaction is shameful along with the CDC
and SHEA.
Jeanine Thomas
National Spokesperson for MRSA
MRSA Survivors Network

--- In MRSA@yahoogroups.com, "Mary Ann Bernard, URDP" <mbernard@...>
wrote:
>
> 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 &amp; 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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