My bout with MRSA!

To anyone who follows my blog or reads regularly, I'm sorry I haven't posted in a few days. I've been really sick. But I plan on starting back up in the next few days with my story. But right now I'm going to tell you all about my bout with MRSA. I mentioned having caught MRSA from the hospital I had Gavin in.

Let me start by saying my SIL Bethany, had MRSA as well. And of course that's where they claimed I got it from. Even though several doctors told me that while it is contagious, it's not easily caught. They told me I'd basically have to take a bath in the same water as Bethany to catch it from her. Which I did not do! I'd lived with Bethany off and on for three years and hadn't caught it from her so why would I catch it now? I didn't. I caught it from the hospital!

About a week after I had Gavin, I was at my mamas one day while Jeremy was at work and I laid down for a bit. When I woke up I had a small bump on the side of my knee that had a black head on it and was really red & warm to the touch around it. It looked like a spider bite. It itched like a bug bite. When we got home that evening I showed it to Bethany and she said immediately, it's MRSA!! I said please don't say that!! The next day when I woke up I had those little bumps all over my legs and on my sides! I made a doctors appointment. At the appointment the Dr busted a bump and slime green stuff came out and blood. The Dr tested the stuff and it come back as MRSA and these bumps were boils. The doctor said they probably started out as bug bites but where I had MRSA in my blood stream these bumps turned into boils. He put me on a seven day supply of an antibiotic called bactrim and sent me home. He told me if these bumps still popped up while on the antibiotic than it wasn't working. I actually seen several doctors. After the 7 day supply didn't work, I was put on a 21 day supply and pain medication because it was VERY painful! During all this, my milk had come in and a milk gland had gotten clogged up. And of course, that turned into MRSA!! Very, very painful this was!! I was sent to the breast imagery center where woman were sent who had breast cancer. At this place, my breast was cut open and drained which was horribly painful! Afterwards, a drain tube was placed in so that anything remaining would come out. This stayed in place for two weeks. But the MRSA wasn't going away. So it was decided that the only thing left to do was IV antibiotics. I was given two options: to go into the hospital for two weeks or do the IV at home. I couldn't go into the hospital, I had a two week old son at home! So I chose the at home IV. I was sent to a place to have a 17 inch pick line that went into my arm and into my chest. It was a very unique procedure that took nearly three hours to complete as it had to go into a specific vein. After it was in, an X-Ray had to be done to make sure it was in the right vein. And luckily it was! So for the next two weeks, Jeremy had to hook antibiotics up to my IV for two weeks. Finally, it went away. After three months of pure sickness, it finally went away!! This was in the middle of all the drama we had to deal with from Bethany and Shane!

I'll continue that nonsense tomorrow....