According to Yahoo, a 27-year-old mum of 1, Jo Gilchrist has been diagnosed with a harsh disease – MRSA (Methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus) – after borrowing her friend’s makeup brush to
cover up a pimple. According to the report MRSA is an antibiotic form of
Staphylococcus, and can be very aggressive.
At
first, doctors could not diagnose her condition, but after she started
to lose feeling in her body she was airlifted from her home town of
Warwick to a hospital for emergency surgery. When she eventually woke
up, she learned she had contracted MRSA.
According
to doctors, the infection started with her spine, and it was so severe
that she would be unable to walk and would be confined to a wheelchair
for the rest of her life.
As saddening as that news is, it just made her want to prove her doctors wrong. According to Jo, “They first said I would never walk again but I got a wiggle out of my toes and I just kept fighting,” she told the Warwick Daily News. She continued – “This
has been a real wake-up call. Before this I was just going through the
motions and existing but now I have a huge fight for life. If someone
tells me I can’t do something, I keep going because just the look on
their faces when I do it is worth it.“
She
has a long road to discovery and due to research is convinced she
caught the infection from borrowing her friend’s makeup brush. She is
set to spend another 3 months in the spinal ward before she can go home
to her son, family and friends.
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