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Same here. Staphylococcus Aureus, about a year ago. Started with a tiny wound on the tip of my elbow. A wound like I've had hundreds of times before. It got a bit infected, like has happened numerous times before that as well and it looked like any other common minor infection. Then after about a week of minor infection I woke up with an egg-sized lump on my elbow and a slight fever. A few hours later my entire elbow turned bright red in a single hour, soon followed by my entire arm. After that the infection really exploded. This was the moment it reached my bloodstream the infectious disease specialist told me afterwards. I was in sepsis, by which time I was luckily already in the ER. Very high fever, resting heart rate of about 150 average with peaks above 200, confusion, delirium, mild hallucinations,.... It was scary how insanely fast it progressed and went downhill and even more scary when the first two antibiotics they administered did not work at all. Note that I'm deathly allergic to penicillin, which is the primary antibiotic against Staph infection, so I can't have that(*). It became even more scary when the specialist then asked me "if this progresses further and we need to make hard decisions, do we have your permission to amputate? Because you are going into septic shock and we are running out of options". Luckily, the third broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotic they administered worked very well and very fast and I went from incredibly ill to just a bit under the weather over the course of a few hours. I've had a few other occurrences before that which made it clear that I am quite sensitive to Staphylococcus Aureus but nothing like that last time. Since that happened, I religiously disinfect any and all wounds I have, no matter how tiny and I do so immediately and vigorously. I carry a strong topical disinfectant everywhere I go. I also have all my limbs, luckily and only have some internal scar tissue in my elbow and a minor phobia of it happening again. It could have been much worse. I was lucky that when I consulted him, my family doctor immediately recognized what was happening and called an ambulance to take me to the ER (*) The specialist told me afterwards that if the third antibiotic wouldn't have worked, they were planning to give me penicillin, even though I'm deathly allergic. They would have tried to suppress the symptoms of the anaphylactic shock which would have undoubtedly followed. That would have been way less dangerous than not giving me penicillin. A matter of possible death or certain death

Infection that you caused? Or was it caused at the hospital you were at? In all of the cases here, I never hear it’s the hospitals error

​@@mytravls Very good point.

Did you get vaccinated previous before?

Nothing to do with any god.

G0d doesn't exist. Sorry

It's why it's prudent to always disinfect even a minor cut

Gald you're okay now. Btw, did you have the "safe and effective"?

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Sometimes it’s really not up the doctors. Every individual circumstance is different. If you don’t have symptoms of sepsis doctors usually don’t have a reason to worry. It’s that simple. Doctors are humans they have criteria to treat because they have to justify every single decision they make to their institutions. Sometimes it’s not the doctors is the bureaucracy running the whole operation. You will be surprised what load of nonsense goes on in the hospital.

Unfortunately, *NOT* all doctors come with the greatest *COMPETENCE!!!* Trust me, you are lucky when you get one that does, obviously could have made a grave difference!!!

It was a small injury, he's just unlucky.

I beg to differ here. Because I think you have a variety of doctors available in the same field. So if you are not satisfied with one. You can go to another one + when we search on Internet. We get learn a lot about a certain disease and its remedies and cures and preventive measures we need to take. The first step is the most difficult. Detecting a disease. That is where the competency of a doctor is challeged. Scabies and Sepsis are slightly different but with same organ failure result. So take your medical conditions seriously

Mostly the person who gets a wound doesn't deal with it promptly

And the media doesn't do stories on them because no one cares about them. sad

I was happy to see him back on the skies again, that was very nice to see :) I didn't even know there was a chair that could be fitted with skies - and the way the chair bends in the corners was awesome

Always keep some broad spectrum antibiotics so that you dont depend on ''doctors'' when you get a wound or cut

​@@unassailable6138Using antibiotics as a prophylactic leads to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

@AuroraClair, Agree. Doctors are careless because nobody is there to hold them accountable for their carelessness and non-serious attitude.

Doctors dismissing things like this is a classic in Germany.

Glad she is alive and you were proactive to get her the care needed. She is bless to have you there to protect her. How did her infection started, if you don't mind sharing.

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We just threw dry dirt on open wounds & soldier'd on as kids

See I know all of that stuff, I get regularly certified, but this type of sepsis still freaks me out because I have a couple of medical conditions that make my hands crack and bleed all the time. Literally nothing I can do to avoid outside contaminants except wear gloves which makes it worse. I 100% agree with you (everyone on earth should know CPR, one of my friends is only alive because I knew and could perform it) but we should pair that with making people aware of the earliest signs of infection of any kind.

Good luck to you, and keep getting all the physical and mental therapy you can! Never ever give up!

tell us what happened, were you flying down the highway at 145mph

For now.

I feel the same, we all take things for granted and sometimes don't remember it is the everyday things that count.❤

@@HVS-gk7oo so true, things change in an instance

What should you be looking for to catch this stuff early? Are there preventative measures?

@@michaelreid5615 If you have a wound, make sure to treat it with something from the pharmacy to disinfect it and wear a plaster or bandaid. The signs for sepsis can be googled. Unfortunately it mimics other things like simply having the flu. The person mentioned in the story above was having weekly dialysis so was more prone to it. The elderly are also more prone. Keep hands washed and take care with hygiene. Basically it is an infection that has made it to the blood stream that you haven't been immunized against (keep immunized), so to best try and stop it when you are bleeding keep it clean!

It's not money, it's the morality that differs in the third world. Neither the populace nor the politicians in the third world would care if such a person is begging on the sidewalk for life. Look how they treat the blind.

​@@davidb2206 First and third world country terms are obsolete. It originated in the cold war where the US and its allies were called firts world and the Soviet union and its allies were the second world and the countries that weren't part of any of these sides were "third world"

@@Joseanimee Then why don't you live in the third world? Somalia and Haiti are welcoming you.

​@@davidb2206I've got a feeling you aren't getting the point of my comment.

@@davidb2206morality? Westerners have better morals than people from third world countries? Wow, keep lying to yourself. Sometimes it’s not even a matter of not caring about the blind, like you said, but maybe they just don’t have the means to help; AND where they can, they will help. It really depends on the person, NOT because of where you come from. After all, there are still people from your countries struggling; do you help them all?

When you get a cat bite you have to see a doctor to get antibiotics immediately. Washing it or using over the counter treatments isn’t enough.

No medical check up in the world is checking your skin for sepsis infected wounds. Irrelevant comment.

Sepsis can kill you in a few days. Checkups wouldn’t save anyone from it unless they had very lucky timing AND they wouldn’t have gone to the doctor otherwise.

He has a wife and kids, of course he wouldn't just give up on life.

@@eurekamreum5458 Many men have given up on life despite having a wife and kids so that isn't always enough. But hopefully he can continue to keep going like he has been so far.

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Every day, several times a day, maybe. But if a germ gets into your bloodstream you need antibiotics immediately, & usually it might not show at first. It's really important to watch any cut or sore very closely.

Immediately. This is why our "old school" moms used to keep "mercurichrome" (mercury) quickly available when we were children and got scrapes. It is no longer available in many countries.

As soon as you can, wash a cut with soap and rinse under running clean water. If you are out and about in the car and just have some bleach wipes handy, use those, then clean thoroughly as soon as you get back home. I've soaked a minor infection in hydrogen peroxide with good results. I live in the country and it's impossible not to get cut frequently on fence wire, critter bites, etc. As long as you keep your tetanus shots current and disinfect any minor injuries, they won't become serious. There's an assortment of good stuff for cuts/burns: silver ointment, hypochlorus acid, hydrogen peroxide, triple antibiotic ointment, etc. Any time you see a red line moving up from a wound, or it's hot or itchy, or slow healing, see your doctor.

It’s impossible to say for sure. With really bad luck all it would take is some bacteria getting into your bloodstream and that could happen almost instantly.

He didn’t get it from a pet. And if you read the comments you can even get it for no apparent reason at all.

Are you praying to the same heavenly father that created these life destroying pathogens an inflicted us with them in the first place?

Lol they are praying to some mythological beings from the past. And they think they are doing something 🤦‍♂️

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Couldn’t he have done something the first time around? lol

Jesus is worthless. He couldn't even get himself off that cross.

No, they don't.

At this point only kooks haven’t had multiple Covid shots, and doctors know what illnesses they can rarely cause (not this one), so you might just as well blame his problems on drinking water or breathing air.