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Post by limbowoman on Jun 14, 2007 21:53:18 GMT -5
Your eyeballs, for instance...
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Jun 14, 2007 23:07:58 GMT -5
Well, yes. But I think after going into septic shock I can beat most of you - 54 tries ant an IV, 1 x-ray, 6 different antibiotics, and a relapse.(Which called for another round of antibiotics.) The reason that the culture hurt so much was that MRSA seals it's self in with a scab that hurts like bejesus when touched or removed - But when it was removed you could touch my arm and coat the floor with the crap that came out... It was fairly disgusting. And not funny.(The infection was in both my knee and elbow.)
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Post by limbowoman on Jun 14, 2007 23:36:08 GMT -5
Godamnit, you have no idea how many people have told me they have some sort of infection like that lately... it's like some sort of evil conspiracy...
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Jun 15, 2007 12:16:37 GMT -5
Well, for some reason MRSA has made it's way from hospitals(HA-MRSA), to community acquired MRSA(CA-MRSA). Nobody really knows why - there have been theroies about people's immune systems weakening to infections from exsessive use of antibiotics, but this hasen't been proven. I have pictures of my knee somewhere - it was no wheres near as bad as my elbow. i63.photobucket.com/albums/h125/dmoontear/Other%20stuff/infection_3.jpgClick if you dare. This wasn't so much a pucture, as it was my knee hovering over my scanner .
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Post by Clover on Jun 15, 2007 13:24:39 GMT -5
That's amazingly cool. Disgusting, but awesome.
And anyways, I'd totally believe that we're weakening our immune systems from all the gunk we slop into our bodies. For example, I'm severely asthmatic. So, as a child, I was prescribed two inhalers: one of febutamol to take three times a day to keep my bronchi from closing, and a ventolin to take if I was short of breath. I found out a few years ago that the febutamol inhaler is basically a steroid.
Which suddenly, lo and behold, explains how a family of tall folks spawned a 5'2 girl. Steroids, I found out, stunt growth if taken before the onset of puberty. Y_Y
So yeah, wierd shit like that.
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Post by bubbles on Jun 15, 2007 13:37:49 GMT -5
Antibiotics don't have that much effect on your immune system, what they really affect is the bacterias themselves. The more they're pitted against the antibiotics, the stronger and more resistant they get.
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Jun 15, 2007 15:03:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I suck at explaining, poppy just explined it better. Clover: Yeah, it left an interesting scar, too.
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Post by AndrogynousMelon on Jun 15, 2007 15:55:54 GMT -5
...biohazard...?
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Jun 15, 2007 16:47:26 GMT -5
Are you asking if it was?
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Post by AndrogynousMelon on Jun 15, 2007 20:55:00 GMT -5
No the scar there....looks like the biohazard symbol Oo Unless it's one of those little tattoo bandaid deals. (Am I the only one that saw it? D=)
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Jun 15, 2007 21:06:31 GMT -5
No, that's nto the scar or a band-aid - that's the actual infection under the scab.
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Post by bubbles on Jun 15, 2007 21:12:33 GMT -5
it looks like when I burnt my arm. =o
XD now that you mention it, I can see the symbol in it, yeah.
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Post by AndrogynousMelon on Jun 15, 2007 21:31:38 GMT -5
That....that is the most awesome freakin infection I have ever seen, holy shit.
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Post by Trey on Jun 15, 2007 21:33:35 GMT -5
they could take SUBCULTURES.
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Jun 15, 2007 21:55:33 GMT -5
YES!
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