How do you know it is living in your abdomen? You must have a wound infection where the hernia repair was done? It is either on skin surface, in your nose hiding or in a wound...in sputum or in urine. VRE is in the colon. Just a bit confused. Please clarify.
Mary Ann

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From: "Ms. Vickie" vickie.layton@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:57:32 -0800
To: MRSA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MRSA] I'm new...

> Bathing with Hibiclens is a GREAT idea to keep the amount of MRSA on the
> skin to a minimum to lessent the chance of it invading a small opening
> in the skin, be it an insect bite or maybe a cut from shaving.
>
> In MY case, I contracted MRSA in the operating room while having a
> hernia repaired. I have now had MRSA living inside my abdomen since
> 2001.
>
> Dealing with open and draining wounds is no fun and
> Is getting older by the day. I hope that in the near future that we can
> all get some help in this battle
>
> Vickie
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 3:51 pm, Dulce Capadocia wrote:
>
> > I thought that MRSA was only on the skin.  I usually shower with
> > Hibiclens just to keep infections at bay. You can get it at the drug
> > store. 
> Ms. Vickie
>