Despite my best handwashing efforts, gowning and gloving, I got cdiff. Three months ago. I just relapsed.
It has been a complete nightmare. I can't return to work. I can't eat. I'm in pain, I have fatigue, etc.
Now I have three more months to completely get better or I will be terminated. The hospital says that I can't prove that I contracted the c.diff there....and I'm harassed by HR to 'prove' that I'm still sick. Do they HONESTLY want me to PROVE that I have c.diff? Don't they think that I could find other things to fake other than this horrible disgusting illness?
My question is, have any ID nurses noticed an increase in your workers contracting c.diff, or a general increase in c.diff in your patients. About the time I got sick, I was on antibiotics, a very bad one in terms of c.diff. But others in my hospital have contracted it (RNs, CNAs and the like), and its seems that half of our ICU unit has it at sometime or another. Any advice would be helpful. Also, I wasn't even offered workman's comp, and I'm financially drowning....
Thank you
~Amanda