--- In MRSA@yahoogroups.com, "Ms. Vickie" <vickie.layton@...> wrote:
>
> I fought all year last year for someone to listen to me about what
meds
> I needed to treat it, but nobody wanted to listen. When I had to be
cut
> open in the ER of FEB 06, I started telling the Dr there that I
needed
> IV Vanco and the mesh needed to be removed, but they didn't want to
> listen to me ... I'm just the patient.
>
> I spent the next 9, yes .... NINE months dealing with an open
abdominal
> wound that had to be cleaned and packed everyday. At one point I
was
> getting so desperate that I was thinking that the only way I would
get
> what I NEEDED, to get better would be to stop taking care of the
wound
> so I would get sick but I wasn't ready to put my life that much
more in
> danger!
>
> So the wound closed up after all sorts of antiobiotics, NOT
Vanco ...
> after 9 months!
>
> So here is is a new year, and I was out shoping with Moms and I
noticed
> that my stomack was wet ... it had come open on its own this time!
So
> ... off to the ER I go again. The doc opens me up and cleans out
the
> gunk and sends me to the wound clininc. I was surprised when not
only
> the ER doc, but also the would clinic doc BOTH said that the mess
needs
> to come out. THANKS ... FINALLY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS what they are
dealing
> with!!!
>
> But since I don't have health insurance at the moment, unless I
become
> acutely ill ... they will have to wait until I am able to afford it
on
> my own or have health insurance.
>
> So ... for the time being, they are just treating the wound. Its
looking
> good and is healing really good ... but I just wish that I could be
done
> with this!!!
>
> Vickie
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:33 am, Mary Ann Bernard wrote:
>
> > Hi Vickie,
> > Right...So, did they take the mesh out?
> > Normally when a wound is infected and they have a foreign body
in, they
> > have to take it out, clear up the infection and start over.
> > But, if you are not having an infected wound (hernia site), I
don't
> > know how they know you have MRSA in your abdomen now?
> > Thanks for clarifying.
> > Yes, many times people remain carriers. But if they are not
culturing
> > it soem where... then it remains to be seen. You probably had a
> > catheter when you had your hernia surgery adn coudl have gotten
MRSA in
> > yrou urine that way also.
> Ms. Vickie
>



Vickie,
I too had a hernia repair in Sept.2005, and the mesh patch was
inserted in my abdomen.About 3 weeks later a abcess started growing
in my (sorry don't know medical term for it)butt crack. In one week
it grew to the size of a golfball. I went to Er and was admitted
after lancing showed I had MRSA, I was admitted and on IV antibiotics
for 6 days. They told me it would be dormant in my body the rest of
my life, and if i had to have any more surgeries I was more likely to
have complications. Thank God I have had no more outbreaks and I
still have the mesh patch. Does everyone know some kinds of these
patches have been recalled. Thank You. Donna