All of September and most of October we might as well celebrate as bacteria month. Usually the first sign of infection is a spike in temperature, and lassitude of body and mind. That was how the month of September started. We did the usual tests – a complete blood count and urine culture test. Yes, he had Urinary Tract Infection (UTI), yay, and the bacterium was E coli . We start him on a mild antibiotic and wait for the infection to disappear. It doesn’t. The urine culture report shows that bacterium has become resistant to more drugs, so we are advised to start on another antibiotic. That course finishes. Repeat the culture test. E Coli is out and enter Klebsiella Pneumoniae . This bacterium is resistant to even more drugs. So another dose of antibiotics. Course completed and repeat the culture test. Klebsella still swarming in alarming numbers with increased resistance to more drugs. In fact it was sensitive to only two drugs. Our doctor does not want to sta
When our father suffered a massive brain haemorrhage our lives changed forever. He was not expected to live. Life, priorities, love, friends, family, money, health – everything has gained a new, in many aspects finer and better perspective. A renaissance in our lives. Finding little or no survivors stories online, my sister and I decided to tell our story along with those of many others whose lives have crossed ours in this journey.