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Originally posted by Smegma
Do they know where he got the infection from?
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He had to have gotten it in the hospital because neither of us had left there...luckily and unluckily... the whole story goes.... he has to be taken by C-section.. somewhere during that they clipped my lower intestine. They of course don't let you go home till all the plumbing is working and it wasn't. During this time (at 8 days) James came down with a fever. He showed none of the other typical sign of spinal meningitus. If we had both been home after a day like I was with my first, I would of figured his fever was a bug and taken him to the peds doc and would of figure my problem was just recovering. Both of these problems could of killed either of us.
They found and fixed my problem at day 10. Moved me to another area because the maternity ward wasn't set up to take care of me. Every chance I got I was walking down to the nursery with IV poles and machines in tow.
James also had a staph infection that is normally something from outside the body, but this was inside his spine.
I did 18 days in the hospital and he did 20. Afterward they told me he might be partially or completely deaf from the large amounts of antibiotics. Thankfully he suffered no brain damage and his hearing is normal. He's a big strapping 5'11" 15 year old.