A photo of Jo Rogers was posted on a GoFundMe page established by her family.
Posted on 08/14/2015 9:38:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
According to KOCO, four days after visiting Grand Lake, Jo Rogers thought she had the flu. The mother of two was tested for both West Nile Virus and meningitis, but the test results came back negative.
Doctors said her organs were starting to shut down. Rogers’ cousin, Lisa Morgan, told KOCO, “…her arms and feet were turning dark blue and black. It was crawling up her limbs.”
It turned out that a tick bite that went unnoticed caused Rocky Mountain spotted fever to attack the 40-year-old woman’s body. Doctors had no choice but to amputate her limbs.
“(They had) to save her life to keep the infection from getting to her vital organs,” Morgan told KOCO.
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She is still on a ventilator and being kept sedated to help with pain.
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Well that sucks a lot.
Simply horrible!
That’s terrible
YOu have to seek immediate attention after the flu like symptoms if you don’t get the bull’s eye rash.
That is just awful. I will certainly be getting my yard sprayed again. Where I live ticks are just a part of life. My kids know to check themselves all the time when they come in from playing outside. Very scary stuff. If would be only too easy to miss one.
wise ass..I just finished a round of Lyme and maybe some day you will be lucky enough to experience an undetected bite long after it trashes your imun system and can no longer be detected.
deer ticks here are the size of a poppy seed....The bulls eye isn’t always present.Nast crap
And I said what that sent you into fits?
Grand Lake! Been there many a time. Ticks and chiggers will carry you off if you are not prepared.
I wonder why Dad brought us to this tick and chigger infested country back in 1956!
I wonder more why I am still here in this tick and chigger infested area instead of swimming in the beautiful orange ANIMAS River where there almost no ticks or chiggers.
Great.
Now I’ll have to deal with yet ANOTHER influx of borderline personality-disordered anxiety-ridden patients who just KNOW they got bitten by a tick.
NO tick present. Brushed it off, but they KNOW they NEED a “broad-spectrum antibiotic” or their arms and legs will rot off.
Perspective, people, perspective.
UNLESS a tick ATTACHES, and FEEDS and sufficient time has passed for the tick to get a blood meal - variably from 48-72 hours, the likelihood of transmitting Lyme (B. burgdorferei), is zero to none. YOU get two doxycycline tablets as a consolation prescription, come back in several weeks for blood tests.
As for RMSF, HGE and all the others, sorry, I’ll be happy to run a CBC, ESR/CRP test and look for a rash, but damn if I’m going to carte blanche write an Rx for an antibiotic based upon someone’s FEARS and not hard clinical data.
Seems like - and I read through an article about this earlier - SOMEONE wasn’t thinking of RMSF and other rickettsial diseases despite the presentation.
[Not the world’s best doctor, but I work REALLY hard to keep up with the literature and board certification]
Mowing the grass last week, I ran over a nest of yellow jackets. They sure didn’t like the mower and sure did take it out on me...
Five nice welts on my legs and arms.
Is that your artwork on your homepage — it is excellent!
Been there, done that. Best of luck to you.
I had a family member become very ill for years courtesy of a doctor’s flippant attitude towards the proper treatment of Lyme Disease.
This is what the most prominent doctors specializing in Lyme Disease have to say. You are reckless and dangerous by simply regurgitating CDC.
http://www.ilads.org/lyme/ILADS_Guidelines.pdf
I see about a dozen yellow jacket bite/stings every year around this time. Their normal food source dies out (gnats, mostly) and they get very aggressive. Very easy to recognize the bite/sting pattern and the burning/itching pain and localized reaction.
No, sorry, you DON’T get a “broad-spectrum antibiotic prescription” for a hymenopteran sting, you get steroids.
At least if you see ME and not the nurse-practitioners who pass themselves off as knowledgeable practitioners of 21st century medicine.
Perhaps it was the double entendre “that sucks” (ticks ‘suck’)...
I did not take it that way...
RMS fever is awful.
Agreed.
I got bitten on the neck and it immediately got an infection. I was at the dr office within hours and was put on antibiotics in case I had been exposed to Lyme disease. I came down with the mother of all migraines, lasting 4 days, which is a symptom of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Thankfully, the antibiotics kicked in and no further problems. Knock wood.
My doctor was gone for the day by the time I called so a nurse practitioner saw my stings. He recommended Zyrtec antihistamine, Advil for pain and wrote a script for Triamcinolone cream. I was better the next day and counted myself lucky I only had five little wounds.
I have been using a couple of sprays. I really wish we could develop a seriously poaerful tick killer, they are very dangerous and we aren't focused on reducing the threat other than "check yourselves" which doesn't always work.
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