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Claude : the road down to hell. |
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Written by Christine Besson
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Sunday, 07 May 2006 |
Jolly good and strong fellow of 38, father of a 7 year old girl, owner of a garage, I led a happy and active life. August 2001: I broke my leg while roller skating. Hospital, reduction of the fracture with a piece of metal (which means I went through a regular surgery). Doctors told me that I will be back to work within a month.
3 years and 15 surgeries later, my leg is not yet healed : a severe infection caused by a bacteria – SARM, staphylococcus aureus resistant to methicillin – ate up the bone and causes constant infection preventing the leg from healing. Should the leg be amputated? Doctors hesitated. Amputation might cause the bacteria to spread all over the body, resulting in death.
I am victim of what is called an hospital-acquired infection. There is no way the hospital or the doctors can be sued. I no longer can work, having to go to hospital almost every second day for treatment and care, I am constantly in pain and must take awful lot of extremely strong antibiotics and heavy doses of morphine. I am left with no resources, I have sold my garage, cashed in all my REER (savings) and soon, I will have to sell my house. I have to pay for certain medication, gas to go to hospital, hospital parking lot etc
My life has become a nightmare and no doctor can tell me if it will stop one day.
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