Are you there god? It's me MRSA.

Margaret had to deal with buying her first bra, having her first period, coping with belted sanitary napkins (times have changed for the better, in so many ways), developing breasts and being the child of an interfaith marriage.

And I have MRSA. On my face.

That pretty much sums it up.

Thanks, good night, god bless and drive home safely folks.
Nov 11 '09

Cefdinir 300mg, twice a day

One of the ironies of MRSA is that, even though it is called an antibiotic resistant superbug, the first thing people ask you is, “what antibiotic are you on?”.

MRSA is an acronym for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.  It isn’t resistant to all antibiotics, YET. What it is, is a staph that is resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it.

The photo below was taken with my handy blackberry camera whilst I was awaiting the fulfillment of my prescription antibiotic Cefdinir.

Cefdinir, for those keeping score at home, has three warnings on the bottle.

  1. The first begins: “MAY CAUSE DIARRHEA, IF PERSISTS OR BECOMES SEVERE, NOTIFY DR OR RPH”
  2. And the second reads: “DIARRHEA MAY OCCUR WEEKS TO MONTHS AFTER TAKING DRUG, CALL DR OR RPH”
  3. The third has to do with interaction with antacids and vitamins

Sounds like I’ve got about a 99.9% chance at some pretty lengthy diarrhea - so, I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.