Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Ermita_Nights
Michigan
Given the timing, and the location of the infection, I believe I picked up this nasty bug from a seat in the lap dance room of one of Detroit's fine stripping establishments.
I am taking this as a sign from God, and giving up my strip club life. At least for now.
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Two more trips to urgent care and then they turned me over to my regular doctor. I saw him last Tuesday and the infection is gone but it will take another month or so for the skin and nail to regrow. I have no idea where I got it. Staph is everywhere. I must have had a tiny cut in that finger.
To make problems worse; apparently there are very few new antibiotics in the works/pipeline b/c for various reasons pharmaceutical makers don’t consider them profitable.
Some refer to the current state as an emergency/epidemic.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/…
NEVER had an issue with any Food I've eaten at a club.
However, I tend not to read global meaning into occurrences like that. If there is a god and he wants me to stop clubbin', why did he choose the Juiceman as his prophet? And if the Juiceman is jus' a crazy dude and there is no god, how did Juice come up with Juice 3:16?
Maybe don't return to THAT club.
If I had to tell the board of directors of a pharma company "yeah...we're going to sink at least $4 billion into developing this drug, but we probably won't sell that much since the only way it will continue to work is if it is used as little as possible" I'd prepare myself to hear "uh no...maybe you should focus on new boner pills. Every dude wants a boner. And they want 'em as often as possible. Lotsa profit. So...yeah, kill the antibiotics division and expand the boner pill department. Maybe statins too...but DON'T SKIMP ON THE BONER PILLS!!!"
Only hope is that the military will step in and say "we need new antibiotics so bacteria don't kill more troops than bullets".
Staph is often found in hospitals, which are really clean environments.
On the other hand, God is going to destroy us PL's because of our love of naked women. Repent NOW!
30+ years ago I came back from south east Asia with a very nasty infection that the common antibiotics couldn't defeat. My doc finally got me back to good health by using Vancomycin. At that time Vancomycin was the 'last resort' antibiotic for such infections as mine. My doc at the time was absolutely confounded by whatever infection I had brought back to Canada. He told me that this was the first time in his career that he had to resort to Vancomycin to cure one of his patients.
I was working in Borneo when this happened. I have no clue where I picked up the bug but it was not in a SC.
I heard he would like it if we in the west do what the Asian/Japanese due which is give a quick bow of the head rather than have to shake hands and touch.
I don't like shaking hands either. It's probably not much worse than grabbing a door knob at work or picking up the gas pump handle. At least I can usually wash my hands after a little while. At church, they want you to stick around and absorb all the viruses.
Art, Vancomycin is so 20th century. I got Bactrim and a Cephalosporin but I couldn't tell you which one.
Shark, I had the same thought about the hospital being a bad place to go for an infection, but I had little choice in the matter.