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I am a RN. I worked on an orthpeadic unit for 6 years an...

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I am a RN. I worked on an orthpeadic unit for 6 years and dealt with many patient with MRSA. Then at a LTC facility for 3 years and always had patients with it. Many had it in nares. I subsequently had a leg wound from falling, and it wouldn't heal. when it was almost healed (after 4 months) I fell again and ended up in ER with a huge hematoma (bruise) on my inside knee that had to be surgically removed. Prior to OR they cultered it and it was +MRSA. At that time I had never been + and I had my nares swabbed when I worked at the LTC facility. No-one can tell me how I acquired it, wether I carried it from LTC facility and was just carrying it or I acquired it somewhere else. This is very scary and really has me perplexed. Had vanco IV and had severe allergic reaction, ended up on zyvox IV then PO for 6-7 weeks. All seemed OK. Three months later had dental surgery. Ended up w/ drysocket/infection, no culter taken but placed on cleocin. Now, 31 days later my old wound on knee is draining again, the wound is throbbing again and the jaw is aching also, the hole in my mouth continues to drain. I am so scared. I am sceduled for knee replacement surgery in 4 weeks from today as i can't live w/the arthritis in my knee. I am scared, especially knowing what happens if MRSA gets in a bone or joint. I am just 37 years old and don't know what else to expect. God, please be with me.

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    I would wait to have the knee surgery until you have no more other troubles. Hang in there.

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    God is with you! Our son had recurring mrsa our dr. said from the ymca. See how we cured our son of recurring cultured MRSA! Go to the website www.mrsaresources.com. Our story and solution with the products we used and what worked is under the Support section in the Forum titled "Your MRSA/Superbug Experience" God love ya, I hope this will help heal you! Take Care, Christi

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    Because you are an RN, I am asking this question.

    I work in a Long-Term care facility as a CNA. We have quite a few residents with MRSA. Due to the HIPPA laws, the nurses cannot tell us what a resident has inre to diseases. All they say is "be sure to follow universal precautions with every resident". With all that I've read about MRSA and that it is contageous, why no isolation? I have occasionally seen lab results that are posted at the nurses station (without names, but with bed/room numbers) and noticed that more often than not, more than one resident in a room has MRSA. Not only that, but I see a trend in that on the previous report, only one in that room had MRSA... See? Why no Isolation, and why no sharing of the info with the CNAs? We are the ones more heavily involved in their direct care. Are "Universal Precautions" really enough?

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