Guest guest Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 , I wonder how the mold-affected folks feel about a universal health care system? We had a legal case of a women who got a mucor infection from a small AC system above the ceiling at work. The condensate drain was clogged and the water would drip onto the ceiling tile. She would clean this daily for 6 months. Mucor was everywhere is very high concentrations. The only genera present after 6 months. The drain pan was black oose. She first noticed sores in her mouth that would not go away. She went to the doctor and he gave her antibiotics which had no effect. Tried viral drugs no effect, finally cultured the sores and found out, it was mucor. The infection spread to her blood stream. She became ill and could no longer work. The US doctors told her there was nothing they could to for here. SO... she went back to England to be treated with National Health care-she was a British citizen!. They had drugs for fungal treatment-that the US did not OR would not pay for her to be treated with (too expensive). This case is still in litigation after 4 years. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Bob s < wrote: > > , > We had a legal case of a women who got a mucor infection from a small AC system above the ceiling at work. The condensate drain was clogged and the water would drip onto the ceiling tile. She would clean this daily for 6 months. Mucor was everywhere is very high concentrations. The only genera present after 6 months. The drain pan was black oose. > > She first noticed sores in her mouth that would not go away. She went to the doctor and he gave her antibiotics which had no effect. Tried viral drugs no effect, finally cultured the sores and found out, it was mucor. > > The infection spread to her blood stream. She became ill and could no longer work. The US doctors told her there was nothing they could to for here. > SO... she went back to England to be treated with National Health care-she was a British citizen!. They had drugs for fungal treatment-that the US did not OR would not pay for her to be treated with (too expensive). > > This case is still in litigation after 4 years. > Bob Do you remember Mark Tatum, " The Man Without a Face " ? Mark went on " Ripley's Believe it or not " hoping to get attention and medical support to determine why a fairly " benign " mucormycosis infection would be so devastating in certain people - he had found other similar cases, and was furious that the medical system was willing to undertake major surgery to save people like him, but were uninterested in determining what underlying etiology allowed this to occur; treating each case like a fluke. I suggested to Mark and his friend Beverly W. that primary immune suppression from a hidden Stachy colony might be to blame. Mark had his house tested and high levels of Stachy was found. Beverly was trying to raise funds to get him out of that house when Mark " unexpectedly " succumbed. I have been witnessing variants upon this theme with increasing regularity that bodes ominously of many cases that were never investigated at all. - - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 , Thanks for the sad update of the man without a face. I remember the case, and never knew what happened to him. High levels of stachy in the home? Why? After what happened to him, you know he was on steroids and other drugs. Didn't the doctor warn him or even question where he got the infection from? How about preventing a secondary infection.? Well, I think this case has some insite into the Aspergillosis issue. Most hospitals and doctors always claim, that the patient got the infection " outside of the hospital " , yet offer no proof of this fact. Perhaps, the reason why the doctor never asked where he got the mucor from, is similar to why they never ask where the aspergillis came from. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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