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Sepsis

Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 06/04/2016 - 7:07pm

          I learned more than I ever wanted to know about Sepsis during the summer of 1952. My father didn't trust doctors because one doctor suggested that he needed to have his legs amputated.

          I will not (because your ears are too tender) repeat his response here. He managed to get back to our apartment and my mother proceeded to "nurse" him. I listened and watched as he went through a special kind of hell those few days as the streaks of "blood poisoning" slowly crept up his legs. After what seemed like an eternity his immune system started beating back the bacteria or fungus or virus that was the infection. Whatever else my dad may have been he was certainly one tough son of a bitch. He walked up to that horror and poked it in the nose. And, this five year old kid saw it all go down.

          Friday at 9:10 p.m Muhammad Ali died of septic shock "due to unspecified natural causes." Float like a butterfly sting like a bee.

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Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Sat, 06/04/2016 - 9:19pm
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which should have been avoided. IOW, caused by the hospital and/or SNF.

I think that it is rather remarkable that Ali lived as long as he did, in that I don't believe folks normally live with Parkinson's for decades and decades. (at least, that's been our experience)

Mollie

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 06/04/2016 - 10:26pm
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          The more I read and the more I think about it the more it becomes clear that sepsis is an opportunistic infection. The horror of a nurse walking from one child to another without taking precautions to avoid cross contamination is indescribable, particularly when it happens because she does not believe your admonition.
          I am lucky (so far) the doctors here know me (my reputation precedes me) and actually listen to me. I am known by some for being a half-step ahead in every consultation session. It helps to have credibility and physician that actually listen to the patient.

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Submitted by lotlizard on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 2:49am
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Puerperal infections: the “Doctor’s Plague”

From the 1600s through the mid- to late 1800s, the majority of childbed fever cases were caused by the doctors themselves. With no knowledge of germs, doctors did not believe hand washing was needed.

Hospitals for childbirth became common in the 17th century in many European cities. These "lying-in" hospitals were established at a time when there was no knowledge of antisepsis or epidemiology, and women were subjected to crowding, frequent vaginal examinations, and the use of contaminated instruments, dressings, and bedding. It was common for a doctor to deliver one baby after another, without washing his hands or changing clothes in between.

The first recorded epidemic of puerperal fever occurred at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris in 1646. Hospitals throughout Europe and America consistently reported death rates between 20% to 25% of all women giving birth, punctuated by intermittent epidemics with up to 100% fatalities of women giving birth in childbirth wards.[20]

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Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Sat, 06/04/2016 - 11:04pm
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Submitted by riverlover on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 4:40am
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While my husband approached death, one day a note appeared on his door that the case had suspected MRSA. All staff gowned and gloved on entry, de-gowning and de-gloving at exit. Disposable garments. But not for me! And two days later, signs off the door, oops.

I have a grandniece with recurring C. diff. Why is unclear. But that child's daddy has cystic fibrosis and C. diff infection would be a likely lethal event. He is likely to die young as it is. An IVF baby product, CF males do not have functional sperm. sperm is taken from the testicles and cultured with mom's eggs. There are other frozen embryos.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.