I feel like crawling under a rock....

[adruiz01]

I have been working as a CNA for the past couple months, and I want to go into nursing. Well that is until today. . My sister called me today and told me she had to take her 8 month old girl to the ER bc she spiked a fever of 106, was in a lot of pain and shaking from it, and how she has a huge boil on her leg and other places. The doc thinks its MRSA!!!! They had to give her a little bit of morphine to take some of the pain away bc she was in so much pain that she was shaking. I just dont understand, I take all the precautions at work (or at least I thought I did) and wash my hands countless times. . . .

My sister babysits my son, my husband is the one who drops him off and picks him up the days I work, so I am never over there. Yesterday was my first time there in a couple months and it wasn't even on a work day. I come home every night take my clothes and shoes off by the door run upstairs to take a shower. I dont touch my son or anything until I have taken a shower. Is it possible that I could have brought it home and my son took it to my sisters?

I feel just awful. . .I want nothing to do with nursing anymore, I just dont feel that its worth the risk of my family and loved ones. IDK what to do :crying2:

They said the doc told them it could have came from anywhere, but whats the chances of that? I can't stand the feeling that maybe I gave my niece something that she can never get rid of, it breaks my heart.

[Forever Sunshine, ASN, RN]

When I was a student nurse my son got a MRSA infection.

I blamed the McDonalds playland. I also blame them for the ringworm he acquired a few months after.

Those playlands are DISGUSTING. I remember years ago when I was a wee one my mother took my sister and I and we went in one of those playlands and my sister at the time was 3 or 4 years old and when my mother said ok its time to go.. my sister came out with vomit on her socks and legs.. and it wasn't hers! My mother freaked!

[adruiz01]

Thank you for all your input. . .after a rough nights sleep and reading all your replies I decided to do a little more research on it to understand it better, which I should have done before I jumped the gun. I guess its just my nature as a mother when a kid is involved. Although I still feel horrible, I have realized that she could have picked it up from ANYWHERE! I didn't realize that it was an epidemic, WOW!

My question now is, once she is out of the hospital is my son safe to be around her?

[adruiz01]

Those playlands are DISGUSTING. !

SOOOO DISGUSTING! I dont let my son play in those. . .only once and that was when we where traveling on a long road trip just to let him get out and burn some energy. The only reason I actually let him is bc there was no ball pits or anything, mostly just like a jungle gym with slides

[damrcngrl95]

Everything the previous posters said is true. I used to teach 4th grade. My son had these "boils" show up on his bottom and thigh. One would show up and I would treat it. It would go away and then another would show up. I finally mentioned something to the nurse during a routine visit and they tested the latest sore and said it was MRSA. I was stunned. It turns out that my babysitter had had a spider bite a couple of months before and I guess it was MRSA. I had two students in my class that played with her children and came up with spots that had MRSA. I worked really hard to disinfect my classroom and keep the MRSA from spreading to other students. None of us worked in a hospital or had anything to do with hospitals and yet we had MRSA popping up in our group.

If you love the nursing field and that is your dream, please don't give it up. MRSA is finding itself in all places now days.

Hope you feel better about things.

deAnna

[Liddle Noodnik]

Thank you for all your input. . .after a rough nights sleep and reading all your replies I decided to do a little more research on it to understand it better, which I should have done before I jumped the gun. I guess its just my nature as a mother when a kid is involved. Although I still feel horrible, I have realized that she could have picked it up from ANYWHERE! I didn't realize that it was an epidemic, WOW!

My question now is, once she is out of the hospital is my son safe to be around her?

As long as nothing is actively draining and she's had negative cultures, I would assume she is not contagious. But get your kids in the habit of not touching their faces or picking wounds, teach them handwashing, teach them to cover open wounds, and etc... It's snot fun, pun intended...