I am still working on my mission to change even just one doctor’s opinion about CA MRSA instead of just changing doctors again. I have been reading everything Yahoo and I can find and am compiling a lot of good information from reliable sources to move forward with this. One interesting tidbit that I have run across several times is that the medical folks now have a reliable test for MRSA that can be done within an hour so now more hospitals are considering screening incoming patients even in the ER but still expect many to pass on the cost especially in light of reading things like hospitals turning sheets over between patients to save on laundry bills. It sure isn’t hard to make them all look ridiculous, is it.

My daughter finally contacted me last night after a weeks silence from me telling her she had to be treated for her MRSA and drug free to come home. She has made other arrangements but sounded terribly ill on the phone last night and told me that her boyfriend now has pneumonia; a very bad sign with CA MRSA.

I still have found nothing about anyone using Phage Therapy (using MRSA destroying viruses to eradicate the MRSA) in this country for MRSA although surely someone here is at least thinking about trying it as MRSA becomes more and more antibiotic resistant. It is sad to refer people who have already lost everything using conventional antibiotics without success to The Republic of Georgia where they are using Phage Therapy on MRSA and many other diseases. I don’t even know where the Republic of Georgia is yet and didn’t even know it existed until I started researching phage therapy. (My doctor slept through MRSA class and I slept through Geography.) Antibiotics caused this disease and we are still focused on using them to cure it!! The dark ages never really ended; we just have light bulbs now. The pharmaceutical companies would be too unhappy if we succeeded with phage therapy and they are a HUGE power in this country. Look how they try to squash Natural Remedies!! And they can’t make money off of selling us a virus to fight MRSA. I’d like to think that if enough people got behind me it would move the government but fear it won’t in a country that doesn’t even get to elect their presidents by individual votes… I’m out of here!

I am awake again in the middle of the night not able to sleep or with the most horrific nightmares creeping all over me when I do manage to fall asleep. They nave nothing directly to do with MRSA except tonight is the second time I have had nightmare and all through it I had a bad taste in my mouth that I couldn’t get rid of like the bitter, sweet, cloying taste of rotted raw meat. I wake with the taste still the for some time until all of the horror of the nightmare fades.
I did however think of something as I woke that made me wonder if the thought was subconsciously giving me nightmares.
I saw another doctor today, a PA again, and got exactly the same non-reaction to MRSA as I wrote about before although this one at least tried to not sow how superior she felt. And my thought was this: I keep going to different doctors looking for one with the same views I have on CA MRSA and yet haven’t yet tried the “impossible” ~ to change one of their opinions. Isn’t that why I do all of this that I do for MRSA? To create awareness? Don’t I “joke” that their white coats don’t make them gods? But I am just walking away from a person who could possibly really spread the correct word if she just got it! OK. A new vow. To do everything I can to change the pre-set mind of a physician or PA about CA MRSA. This one talked about just lancing the boils when people come in like it was a bothersome pimple she was treating! She chided me that very few people actually die unless they get it in their blood stream and that only happens in very rare, extreme, cases according to her. She said that a serious reaction like what was taken in the Netherlands would just cause unnecessary panic here. I have to look up Panic’s part in Mythology again. I know my part with it. I’m keeping on instilling the fear of CA MRSA in everyone I come across including the doctors if I at all can. Perseverance was my first thought on spreading the word and will be my last like Peter the Apostle.

I have long felt that the UK was ahead of the US in the fight against MRSA and now the UK is fighting an even deadlier Super Bug outbreak in their hospitals called Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that is related to the bacterium that causes tetanus and botulism. Their government had a plan in effect for tackling MRSA but they say of this one that “They have reacted too late - there should have been a tough approach early on. This technology should have been used a long time ago. We are playing catch up now and a lot of people are dying.” What frightens me the most about this news is that so many of us feel that quote about the C diff relates to the US’s reaction to MRSA. WHAT IF we, too, get hit with the C diff now? I used to dream about writing a Science Fiction novel about an alien bug that attacked humans and shortened our lifespans to 25 years leaving us required to accomplish everything we could by the age twenty five thus recruiting all child geniuses to work on a cure. It gives me shivers now when I think how much ’science fiction’ eventually becomes science and I never even wrote it!! AS we pray for a stop to the spread of CA MRSA and MRSA in our country lets take a moment to pray for those suffering from and working to contain C diff in the UK before it becomes epidemic here.

Today I found two articles in the news that go from one extreme to the other about the spread of MRSA. In Ireland it was announced that candidates and canvassers were being told to keep washing their hands thoroughly to minimize the spread of CA MRSA along their campaign trail. Wouldn’t you just love to see precautions like that getting news coverage in our country! Especially in light the fact that more than half of our athletic trainers say they have treated an athlete for MRSA! But on the flip side, U.K. staff workers at Good Hope Hospital in Suton Coldfield are being ordered to just turn the sheets over and the pillow cases inside out between patients to save on laundry bills!! Since MRSA is obviously a problem all over the world why can’t we have protocol in place globally to fight this monster? OK, that’s asking a bit much but how about just in our own country? We need widespread recognition of MRSA and then to copy everything that has ever been done to successfully eradicate this Super Bug. Ireland’s response to this threat isn’t extreme at all and a very simple but effective way to contain MRSA. And remember, thorough hand washing is 15 seconds with soap and warm water! I hate seeing elegant women in the ladies room dampen their fingers and wipe them dry and go! I’m not even sure if that is better than nothing!!!