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Sorry for jumping in late. Prayers sent for your friend and his family.

It's a terrible ordeal. My ex-mother in law had a similar thing happen to her here in the Fort Worth hospital.

Minor surgical procedure performed to correct a gastrointestinal issue she was having.
Ended up with MRSA infection that spread like a wildfire.

She ended up in medically induced coma for 3 weeks as they tried to pump just about every drug into her, I've never seen so many different IV bags around one person, and I've gone through Trauma/Med Surg rotation during my EMT program. Unbelievable.

She finally beat it, but that was almost 2 months later. She spent all together 5 months in the hospital (month in a rehab), and she never returned to be the same person.

In this day and age where we can get very complex surgical work done with extremely high survival rates, the fact that so many patients perish or are left debilitated after exposure to an Hospital acquired infection is unacceptable and extremely troublesome.

Will continue to pray for you friend and his family.