My daughter called tonight and told me that she has a new boil on her stomach. Terror clutched me like it does every time this starts again but what I find unbelievable is how she and many of those around her seem to live in denial of their condition. They still don’t seek medical attention until it is at a horrifying state and still, after all I and others have tried to say, they still exchange antibiotics and try to treat these outbreaks themselves! I hope this isn’t the norm for behavior with MRSA. It doesn’t sound like it from what I read here although I’m sure we all go through some kind of hopeful denial. I wonder if the problems I face trying to help those around me are from the fact that they are drug abusers in general and use their “escape” from the problem??

I also told my daughter I would be interested in talking to her boyfriend so I could get some idea how someone could still believe they are being bitten by spiders like he does and she said that he is only one of many who still blame spiders. In fact, she herself believes she has CA MRSA but that it started with four spider bites. A friend in Florida wrote and tole me that her place of business was infested with brown recluse spiders that carried MRSA! Is this at all remotely possible? I’m finding that I can’t change the mindset of anyone who believes they just have spiders and it is really flabberghasting!

Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? And do my stories of the people I deal with who contracted this through needle sharing sound different than those who caught it elsewhere?

I have been ill at home for several days but hope to be back out “in the field” this week talking to more people. I hope anyone who has a story of someone living in denial of their condition will write about it, too!

Hope, faith and prayers to you all! Rhoda