Eva,
<< Antimicrobial Resistance
MRSA - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a type of bacteria that is resistant to certain antibiotics. These antibiotics include methicillin and other more common antibiotics such as oxacillin, penicillin and amoxicillin. Staph infections, including MRSA, occur most frequently among persons in hospitals and healthcare facilities (such as nursing homes and dialysis centers) who have weakened immune systems.
Thanks, Letty.
So "MRSA" is one type of staph infection, then?
Yes, Eva. And that's why our Husker keeps getting sick.
Doing well today still have the migraine but it's in a managable state and the fever blister - stings.........
At least it'll keep your mind off your leg!
(Sorry, bad joke.)
Good to hear you're doing okay. Hope you're getting lots of rest. Hang in there, big fella.
Checking in, always lurking about, wringing hands, sending out a sunrise drive vibe...
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Yo, Husker. I don't say much, but I hope you know my thoughts and good wishes are with you.
IN the past 24 hours I had heard of 2 possible cures
some medication only available in Canada waiting for name
use of special lighting
Tell ya what. Well sneak you over the border in some laundry. We get you the Canajun stuff and get you cured.
Another drive-by wish that youd whup this thing, damn youve got patience .
patience comes with a cost
Doesn't it, though.
What's the "special lighting" thing about?
Eva wrote: What's the "special lighting" thing about?
I don't know yet some about a light with different color light waves????
Someone is supposed to be getting back to me.
Doc says - I'm here at home until about the 21st.
Feeling good - leg not looking so good, need body to get busy flushing leftover blood out of leg.
Or leeches.
Seriously, fascinating article about them in the New Yorker last week.
Aw, can't find it online. This paragraph is the best I can do -- hope it appears somewhere eventually.
Quote:The next, and final article is all about the comeback, in modern medicine, of leeches. Anybody with even a smattering of historical study under her belt knows that leeches were the bane of pre-modern medicine, often making patients worse rather than better. But according to John Colapinto, writing in "Bloodsuckers," ever since the discovery, in 1884, of the first natural anti-coagulant substance ever discovered, in the saliva of Hirudo medicinalis, the leech has enjoyed scientific, if not medical, interest. The medical interest kicked in in 1985, when a Boston surgeon had to cope somehow with a child's outer ear that he had successfully reattached, only to watch it darken with congested blood. A mad and surreptitious scramble for leeches saved the day, and, ever since, leeches have been the handmaidens (and the handymen - they're hermaphroditic) of microsurgery. They bring an incomparable array of complex wonder drugs to the healing of re-connected veins and healing joints. (They may even be approved for the treatment of osteoarthritic knees - just in time for me!)
http://www.portifex.com/DailyBlague/archives/2005/07/new_yorker_roun.html
Leeches have been used of late to treat a variety of health issues.
yep, even hockey teams use 'em.
don't believe me?
check it out...
I read the article, gee, I am almost caught up, but you're right it might apply for husker.
Well, one of us can email him the article, but is it really offline already?
Speaking as a girl who freaked with leeches at her ankles at Lake Tomahawk (I didn't think to question the name then, but, trust me, I do now -) Wisconsin.
But yeh, that article was quite interesting.
You and I have some differences in what we consider "quite interesting," Osso. I would have said disgusting.
Put that leech down, Husker! You don't know where it's been!
