Thanks Jostein. They are both OK so far. The oldest is 9 years out, so he's 'officially' cured.
The whole thing gives you a lot of awareness of what goes on in the hospital. You need to be an advocate for your patient. After a lot of face to face contact, the staff gets more careful. I think infection protection improved from the 1st to 2nd son. Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 5:04 PM, AlunFoto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hope your boys came through allright, Bob. > That's exactly the kind of situation I was thinking about for > increased risk of getting MRSA infections. > > I believe some investigations have shown that misunderstandings about > how to prevent infection among nurses and other healthcare personel > must carry part of the blame for spreading the bugs. Not sure if it > was conducted in Europe or US though... > > Jostein > > 2009/9/11 Bob Sullivan <[email protected]>: >> Both of my boys went thru 3 rounds of chemotherapy for testicular >> cancer, 9 and 3 years ago. 3 x (one week in the hospital with 24 hour >> IV drip, then 2 weeks off to recover blood counts). They were pretty >> well wiped out by the 3rd round and the hospital got better about >> infection protection as time progressed. Staff did things like >> posting a warning outside the hospital room about infections and >> looking for better hygene (hand washing) from all who entered the >> room. >> Regards, Bob S. >> > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
