So, My dad has recently contracted MRSA.

[blockguy™]

i thought it you had an exclamation point at the end so i thought that your dad was some kind of contractor and MRSA was some big company i've never heard of

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[ZSNO]

Also don't pop any entrepreneur les right now. Gives MRSA a good way right into your bloodstream.

[Sentry]

So pretty much every loving place in your body...

Well I mean it can spread anywhere but the wetter and hotter said spot is on your body, The better it is for the bacteria to thrive.

[TheABELBOTO]

Oh god is that basically necrotizing fasciitis

[Waru]

cut it out

[Sentry]

cut it out

That is a horrendous idea.
Giving yourself a giant flesh wound like that would cause the infection to spread super incredibly quick, Unless the entire appendage was amputated which is something I think everyone wouldn't want to do.

[SetGaming]

What's so rude about that!?

it's rude because OP's talking about a cold his dad contracted that was devastating to his dad's life, and you just come in - first post no less - and complain about how bad your tiny cold is.

[Sideswipe]

terrifying.

Very.
Best of luck to your dad.

[Freek]

it's rude because OP's talking about a cold his dad contracted that was devastating to his dad's life, and you just come in - first post no less - and complain about how bad your tiny cold is.

Yeah this

[blockman01]

Why does your situation remind me so much of "the walking dead"?

[SeventhSandwich]

MRSA is a very lethal contagious flesh eating bacteria. My dad has had a black spot on his inner thigh for a couple days and today he just got confirmed by his doctor to have MRSA.

That's kind of overstating the lethality of MRSA. People who contract it in the form of a skin boil basically never die.

The reason why it's so deadly is the fact that a lot of the people who catch it already have serious illnesses, since it gets spread around in hospitals. Another reason is the fact that many of those aforementioned people catch it in the form of pneumonia, and it gets way worse before they even figure out that it's MRSA. At that point, it's very difficult to treat it.

I'm not saying this to minimize your dad's case or anything, but you don't have very much to worry about.

[Headcrab Zombie]

MRSA by itself isn't a "flesh eating disease"
It's an antiobiotic resistant strain of S. aureus, which can cause many infections, including flesh eating disease
What's scary isn't the symptoms, but the fact that it's antibiotic resistant.

Oh god is that basically necrotizing fasciitis

"flesh eating disease" is just the less technical sounding name. So, yeah.

[Lego lad]

That's kind of overstating the lethality of MRSA. People who contract it in the form of a skin boil basically never die.

they live forever

[BubbaGum]

I had MRSA once so yeah that's stuffty sorry to hear that

[DrHitius]

That is really Scary. I hope he gets well soon.