Diane,
How was it "cured"? How long did she have it? Was she on a special
diet? I'd really like to hear more. Every bit of information is
helpful. It is just an awful bug. Changes one's life.
Pam
Rosenfeldt, Diane wrote:
My mother had Cdiff for a while, and it was pure misery. You have my
sympathies.
Diane R.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pam Norman
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:49 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: Great Snake evening excitement
I took Augmentin last year for a cat bite & next thing I knew I was
deathly ill with Cdiff (clostridium difficile). Lost 30 pounds in 3
months, was on Flagyl for 8 weeks with 2 relapses, went on Vancomycin &
am still on it 8 months later. I will not take a broad spectrum
antibiotic again unless it is direly necessary & even then I will be
sure to take Vanco with it. And me with 10 cats of my own, & a
semi-feral colony of 4. I honestly don't know what is worse, an
untreated cat bite or Cdiff.
Pam
Kelly L wrote:
At 01:10 AM 5/22/2007, you wrote:
Yup, I am a nurse so I know about cat bites,,,it is the only thing
i realy go to the doctor for for treatment and already started
antibiotics,,,,
Kelly
Please be very careful with the cat bites. I know you will be but
have to say it anyway. I little feral broken a finger (much to the
dismay of an entire hand practice at a university here). I had
surgery twice. Immediately to repair some damage and later
(supposedly) to repair the nail bed. The last surgery was after a
very long course of antibiotics. Instead of repairing the nail bed
they wound up cleaning out the wound again. Seems like it was very
infected with no outer signs of infection. Some of these "bugs" can
get into the bone and fester for months or years. I am not saying
this to scare you just to ask that you keep an especially close eye
on the situation. Your cats value you much too much to let you spend
too much time at a hospital.
If you have men who
will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of
compassion and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise
with their fellow man.
St.
Francis
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:47 PM
Subject: Great Snake evening excitement
Ok..So I am alone and head into the bedroom to see several cats
curiously looking under the dresser. this can mean, a toad, a bird,
a gopher or snake,,,I have already removed a few garter snakes from
the cats this year,,, i got down on my hand and knees,,,shooing the
cats away and heard a very irritated snake under the dresser. i
could not tell if it was a gopher snake or a rattle snake,,,So now
what,,there are 13 cats in there and i tried to get them out with
out scaring them under the dresser,,favorite hiding place,,I did not
want to leave as i needed to keep track of the snake, I tossed a few
cats in the bathroom,,slammed the door,,,got one into the closet and
scared a few into my cat inclosure and locked them out, that left
only 4 more,
I called Ashley, my cat helper to come give me a hand,,She arrived a
few moments later,,,boots,,,rake and pail,,,but i still needed to
get one feral out of the room,,,Well I grabbed her by the scuff and
was almost out the door but she turned and really got me good,
Several very deep bites but I got her out,
Well we got the snake out and once in the light it looked more like
a poor little scared gopher snake so we took him out to the
vineyards to release him,,, I have pictures if anyone wants to see
him,,,
the moral of the story is ..well there may not be one,,find a snake
in your room and go the emergency room with a cat bite!!
What is strange is I have a pair of Red Tail hawks nesting in my
palm tree and eating on the telephone pole out side my window,,,each
day they seem to come home dangling a snake and i was just
commenting that all my snakes will disappear,,,hmmm
Kelly
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