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blackstone

From the "It's Funny NOW" files:

Jun 17, 2007 13:48

I mentioned my mom vs. the brown recluse in my last post, but I realized I hadn't blogged about the details. I tend not to blog about Serious Business while it's going on, but now that everything is fine I'll talk about it because it is kinda funny. A little teeny bit funny. And shalanna, having included a spider bite in fiction, was curious.
( Here is the story of the spider that should not have been there biting the Queen of Peculiar Ailments )

animals, family

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ladyceleste June 17 2007, 20:37:19 UTC

MRSA is KNOWN to be given out in hospitals though; I just met someone who is suing the hospital because they put him in a room with someone with MRSA and the nurse that was overlooking both of them wasn't taking the proper precautions and he got it (he was only in for a severe asthma attack).

Brown recluses scare the poop out of me. s'one of the reasons I won't move out of Delaware, I won't live anywhere with poisonous spiders.

blackstone June 17 2007, 20:45:29 UTC

That's true, and is the obvious choice. But she's been in & out of doctor's offices a lot over the last 5 years and had a major surgery, so it could have gotten in then. She also was a nurse for 30 years. One of her nurse friends has confirmed that MRSA is 'out in the world' now. I'm guessing she picked it up at some hospital or other at some point; she probably couldn't even trace it. She's been to see lots of specialists.

They put someone with breathing problems in with someone with an infectious disease? Wow, that's...yeah, I'd sue.