olyclimber Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2003955661_bug17.html Quote
rob Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Thx! I'd run out of excuses to call in sick. This is perfect! Quote
Seahawks Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Little scary when you have young children just starting school. Quote
minx Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 a little scary if you have to go to the hospital Quote
kevbone Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Little scary when you have young children just starting school. Â Home school...... Quote
Seahawks Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Little scary when you have young children just starting school. Â Home school...... Â My boy's Kindergarden class last year a little girl died when she got sick and had inflamation around her heart. Really weird thing. I felt terrible for her family. Something no family should go through. Those super bugs are scary crap. Quote
rob Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 My little girl was admitted to Children's with a staph infection a couple years ago. I don't remember her being very happy about it, but she did get her own TV and her brother wasn't around to pick on her Quote
olyclimber Posted October 17, 2007 Author Posted October 17, 2007 having nearly died from staph earlier this year i can tell you it is a horrible way to go. i hope none of you get it, and if you do, your immune system is up to the task. Quote
kevbone Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Something no family should go through. Â Â I agree......I could not even imagine. Quote
Dechristo Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 having nearly died from staph earlier this year i can tell you it is a horrible way to go. i hope none of you get it, and if you do, your immune system is up to the task. Â I cut off the end of my thumb thirteen years ago and it promptly became infected with staph. It hurt so fuckin' bad (in spite of taking 1400mg of ibuprofen every four hours) that, before getting to a hospital, I nearly purposely cut more of it off with a miter saw just to get rid of the painful stump end. Quote
JosephH Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 Gyms and Community Acquired Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) Quote
lizard_brain Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 a little scary if you have to go to the hospital  Even more scary when you WORK in a hospital - even just in administration. I run for the can and wash my hands every time I have to go to one of the labs, especially the microbiology lab (the 'blood and poop lab', as it is so aptly called), and I keep a jar of hand sanitizer on my desk. Quote
dmuja Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 Hospital visits/stays should always be the last resort. Â Speaking of hand washing.. Â At the gym where I work out, I informally kept track one busy day (just curious, No I dont usually watch men using the t'let in the locker room). Â Out of 10 dudes who came out of the restroom in about 2-3 minutes, only 5 of them put their hands under the faucet. 4 of them used soap, one guy just rinsed his hands for about 2 seconds. Â In this day and age, I find this disgusting! Â I always disinfect the equipment with alchohol before using it. Quote
lizard_brain Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 At the hospital they tell us the dirtiest surfaces there are: Â -Our keyboards (They claim the toilet seats are cleaner, because they get sanitized every night, and most people use ass-gaskets), Â -The currency in the cash register in the cafeteria, Â -Doorknobs. Â Â Â Â Â Quote
Seahawks Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 (edited) At the hospital they tell us the dirtiest surfaces there are: Â -Our keyboards (They claim the toilet seats are cleaner, because they get sanitized every night, and most people use ass-gaskets), Â -The currency in the cash register in the cafeteria, Â -Doorknobs. Â Â Â Â Â I started last year opening the doors around here with my badge and not touching them. Â The year before that I was sick with a cold 5 times, last year nothing. Not touching them this year. Well see. Edited October 18, 2007 by Seahawks Quote
lizard_brain Posted October 18, 2007 Posted October 18, 2007 I stopped opening doors with my tongue. I figured it defeated the purpose of the hand-sanitizer. Quote
lizard_brain Posted October 19, 2007 Posted October 19, 2007 A freind of mine teaches kindergarten - he constantly has colds from those little germ incubators. Worst hygene habits around, little kids - picking their noses, sneezing in his face, nice of them to share... Quote
i_like_sun Posted October 19, 2007 Posted October 19, 2007 I recently had a discussion with an infectous disease specialist, and she basically told me that at the end of the day, she realizes that people in her field are still in the dark ages of medicine. "There are exponential volumes of bugs that we don't even know exist". "We're getting better, but there is still a LONG way to go". Â This shit is scary. Quote
i_like_sun Posted October 19, 2007 Posted October 19, 2007 I stopped opening doors with my tongue. I figured it defeated the purpose of the hand-sanitizer. Â Â Well, thats why they call you lizard brain. What if we changed it to "NO_BRAIN"? Quote
lizard_brain Posted October 19, 2007 Posted October 19, 2007 Yeah, I work next door to the immunology lab here. And across the hall from the blood and poop lab. All I can say is I'm glad I work in administrtion and not in the labs. Â And I know it's boring but, I chose the name at random when I came to this board, shortly after a dicussion about evolution, and someone had made a reference to the brainstem as the 'lizard brain'. I was amused by the reference - what he meant was the reptilian complex. I knew what he meant, but thought it was a funny reference and it stuck with me. Â Â Quote
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