A 27-year-old Australian mother is now confined to a wheelchair after catching a serious infection from using her friend’s makeup brush, the Daily Mail reported.
Jo Gilchrist reportedly caught a staph infection that eventually attacked her spine after using a friend’s brush to cover up a blemish. She was admitted to Princess Alexandra Hospital on Feb. 14, 2015, in Brisbane, where doctors continue to try to rid her body of the infectious bacteria.
The patient suffered incredible pain, and nothing would work. She really thought she was going to die, she then said the pain was worse than childbirth.
Gilchrist described that the numbness began in her arms and leaked into her chest, which caused doctors to put her in a medically-induced coma. She underwent surgery, and doctors later told her she contracted community-associated MRSA.
The friend did have a staph infection on her face, and I was using her brush just before; however Jo had no idea that could even happen. She used to share with her friends all the time, she told the news site.
Doctors reportedly told her the infection damaged her spine and she would be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
But she is fighting this with all she has got, and she is starting to walk again. Two weeks ago, they said she might be able to walk for an hour or two a day— like grocery shopping, washing up and hanging the washing out. She also lost control over her bladder, and all feeling below her stomach, the report said.
Jo believes. she is so lucky it went to her spine … but if it went to her brain, she would have died, and if it went to her limbs they would have been amputated. Jo Gilchrist will reportedly spend the next three months in the hospital as doctors administer antibiotics to kill the infection.
References:
- The Daily Mail
- FoxNews
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