I had always wondered why some rooms had red signs on the door and people needed to wear yellow gowns and gloves upon entering. What could be wrong with such a baby that even their parents have to wear gowns and gloves to see their baby?! I asked a nurse about it one day after about a month of being here. MRSA.
Now we are one of the rooms with the red sign, the big bin of yellow gowns...what I feel like is a "scarlet letter" of sorts. Stay away from this room - this baby is carrying a bad bacteria. Fortunately it does not effect us as mom and dad as much as I had feared. They still want us to kangaroo you. The skin to skin contact benefits outweigh the risks. And because we can kangaroo, our nurse said it is contradictory to wear the gloves and gowns because we've already touched your skin. I asked if it is risky to us since we may or may not have MRSA colonized on us because we touch you. They said that since we are healthy and don't have compromised immune systems there should be nothing to worry about. They mainly want to protect the other babies in the NICU from MRSA; especially the tiny micro-preemies like you used to be. Hopefully it will be nothing more than a nuisance, but in the back of my mind there are fears that I wish were not there. We pray that your body/blood does not get invaded with this bad MRSA bacteria.
We will never know how you got infected. (I have some guilty suspicions) Somehow they found it in your ET tube. The NNP said it could be anywhere - on your medical equipment or on someone's hands; it is found many places in the community too. But it is very dangerous to people with compromised immune systems so they will be watching you more closely from now on
You just want to make sure you have everything checked off the list before you get discharged don't you...what's next, ROP?
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