Termyn8or
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I find this hard to believe, but it is true. From the other MRSA thread you know I know someone who got "colonized".
Well I have witheld from posting this so I could observe and be sure.
What happened is my buddy with MRSA seems to have beaten it. I obviously couldn't post this the first day, because MRSA is like roids, you never know when it is coming back. But the screnario is thus.
He had the problem, he got it in the leg and they had to lance it and dig down because the infection was just about to the bone. They gave him a powerful local and he actually assisted in the procedure. The docs and nurses were surprised that he could deal with digging around in his own eg like that. The wound was packed and he was given powerful antibiotics. It came back. He was no longer in danger of losing his leg but it came back in his nose !
The procedure was pretty much the same but he could not assist and it was very painful, to the point where when he called me to pick him up he said right in front of them "I think I'm going to sue this place".
He was quite depressed at the time and he made a decision, something like mine, that he was not going back. Live or die. This suports one of my theories. (later)
Well, a few weeks later he is free of the disease to the best of his knowledge. He explained to me that he could feel the difference, but strangely after the last procedure to remove the colony from his nasal tissues, they examined the infection and told him it was a different strain, actually something they had never seen before.
After that there were no more lesions, and like I said, I witheld posting about it for a time because before it was like be got rid of it and it always came back the next week. It's been a few weeks now and he says it is gone.
So OK we are still in the hoping stage, but the indications are good. This actually happened after he stopped taking treatment. He was willing to die, like I am. He was simply tired of it.
The human immune system can do alot, if given the chance. And I think that is what happened. The mutation was caused in part by antibiotics and also by his immune system. The new type of infection in his nose may have survived and killed him, but it was removed (OUCH). Once it was gone, it was gone.
I know I am radical, and here will be a manifestation of that. They have stories on TV about kids getting MRSA and them sanitizing schoolrooms and such. The part of me that has researched and learned hopes that these kids are not treated with antibiotics except in the most severe cases. They are young enough that their immune system can develop and adapt.
And further research seems to indicate that everyone has a touch of MRSA somewhere in their body, the difference is that the body's immune system fights it well enough that it cannot "colonize".
I have studied the human immune system a bit. It adapts. It can match DNA with an infection and combine with it, rendering it inert, and out with the next piss. It can also have a somewhat antibiotic effect. And it is all intertwined with the mind.
There is alot to this, way more than is fit for this post, but I doubt few will argue against the basic premise. I believe that in the absence of certain things you can almost will yourself to death, or will yourself to life.
I think that when one avoids medical treatment except for very traumatic injuries or serious, serious illness, their immune system becomes stronger and their body's restorative/healing properties also become stronger. Those who call an ambulance for a hangnail become weaker.
I am voicing an opinion based on extant facts, for now it looks like the dude beat MRSA. I am a fair Man, if this changes I will let you know, but these are my conclusions based on what I am seeing in real life right now. Fucker is healthier than ever, well almost, he is 47.
But I'll tell you this, he lost a bunch of weight and I and going to egg him on to do something he used to do when he was 20. He used to walk on his hands. I mean literally stand on his head, lift his carcass up and walk around on his hands. I don't mean just a few steps, I mean walk all over the front yard, and make it look easy.
Perhaps next weekend, get him just the right buzz and I think he might give it a try. And if he falls down, so what. I've seen this guy fall off the equivalent of a garage roof (his boat) right onto the pavement. I felt it. He got up no problem. But a little microbe almost took him down.
And I can't really say this has anything to do with it, but he has never lost a fight, ever. Maybe it is that attitude, and you need attitude to win a fight, maybe that made his immune system finally wake and do it's job.
There is alot more to this than anyone understands, but we can try.
T
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