C Diff is often resident to the patient and overgrowth is triggered when antibiotics kill off other resident bacteria which keep it in check. Was it caught in the hospital or triggered by antibiotics which were necessary to treat the cause of hospitalization?
Yes, my grandmother was being treated for a urinary tract infection a few weeks prior, but it didn’t help things that the hospital put her in a room with a woman who was infected with C. diff.
The doctor had her in the hospital to test her for the tremors in her hands. (She’s had them for over 20 years!) I swear her GP was getting some sort of kickbacks for all those neurology consults.