MRSA and Jobs in Medical Field

[scanboyd]

I am a 58 yr old cfer with MRSA just recently retired from Nuclear Med. Technologist. You might want to do some research regarding working in a hospital. I was never told that I could not work as a Nuclear Med. Technologist, did for 34 yr. Good Luck



Old Retired
58w Cf!

 

[karenanne99]

KYBERT,
Hey in regards to your question about how healthy I am ...um i dunno lol..like it depends on what you consider healthy but I mean i get admitted into the hospital atleast a few times a year and usually am on antibiotics because I always have a cough but like i can do everything i want. Just sounds like I smoked for a million years..( i hate when ppl hear me cough n ask me if i am a smoker!!<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">isgust<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

 

[karenanne99]

KYBERT,
Hey in regards to your question about how healthy I am ...um i dunno lol..like it depends on what you consider healthy but I mean i get admitted into the hospital atleast a few times a year and usually am on antibiotics because I always have a cough but like i can do everything i want. Just sounds like I smoked for a million years..( i hate when ppl hear me cough n ask me if i am a smoker!!<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">isgust<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

 

[karenanne99]

KYBERT,
Hey in regards to your question about how healthy I am ...um i dunno lol..like it depends on what you consider healthy but I mean i get admitted into the hospital atleast a few times a year and usually am on antibiotics because I always have a cough but like i can do everything i want. Just sounds like I smoked for a million years..( i hate when ppl hear me cough n ask me if i am a smoker!!<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">isgust<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

 

[Jennifer1981]

Yes, it is true.

I went to a technical school and got an Associates Degree in Medical Assisting. Then, I got a job in an Oncology clinic in the Reading Hospital and Medical Center where I had daily interaction with chemo and radiation patients. I knew I had Pseudo but that was it. My doctors knew and said it was still ok to work there. Also, I told the head nurse that hired me that I had CF right from the beginning. No one had a problem with it.

Well in January, I had my yearly exam and everything was fine. Then in February, I got really sick. I went to my CF doctors and found out that I got MRSA. That was a shock.

I lost my job immediately. The hospital had to file a JACO report because I had exposed the whole clinic to it. Because all that happened, I received Social Security payments immediately. I was never rejected or had to file an appeal like most do. I still am not eligible for state assistance, though.

I feel like I went to school for nothing. I'm still paying on my $18,000 loan that is now useless and worked in the medical field for only 3 months! My advice to all CF'ers is stay out of the medical field. Become anything else but that. I regret it now. My health is still good 3 years later, but it did decline some ever since the infection.

Jennifer 24 w/CF

 

[Jennifer1981]

Yes, it is true.

I went to a technical school and got an Associates Degree in Medical Assisting. Then, I got a job in an Oncology clinic in the Reading Hospital and Medical Center where I had daily interaction with chemo and radiation patients. I knew I had Pseudo but that was it. My doctors knew and said it was still ok to work there. Also, I told the head nurse that hired me that I had CF right from the beginning. No one had a problem with it.

Well in January, I had my yearly exam and everything was fine. Then in February, I got really sick. I went to my CF doctors and found out that I got MRSA. That was a shock.

I lost my job immediately. The hospital had to file a JACO report because I had exposed the whole clinic to it. Because all that happened, I received Social Security payments immediately. I was never rejected or had to file an appeal like most do. I still am not eligible for state assistance, though.

I feel like I went to school for nothing. I'm still paying on my $18,000 loan that is now useless and worked in the medical field for only 3 months! My advice to all CF'ers is stay out of the medical field. Become anything else but that. I regret it now. My health is still good 3 years later, but it did decline some ever since the infection.

Jennifer 24 w/CF

 

[Jennifer1981]

Yes, it is true.

I went to a technical school and got an Associates Degree in Medical Assisting. Then, I got a job in an Oncology clinic in the Reading Hospital and Medical Center where I had daily interaction with chemo and radiation patients. I knew I had Pseudo but that was it. My doctors knew and said it was still ok to work there. Also, I told the head nurse that hired me that I had CF right from the beginning. No one had a problem with it.

Well in January, I had my yearly exam and everything was fine. Then in February, I got really sick. I went to my CF doctors and found out that I got MRSA. That was a shock.

I lost my job immediately. The hospital had to file a JACO report because I had exposed the whole clinic to it. Because all that happened, I received Social Security payments immediately. I was never rejected or had to file an appeal like most do. I still am not eligible for state assistance, though.

I feel like I went to school for nothing. I'm still paying on my $18,000 loan that is now useless and worked in the medical field for only 3 months! My advice to all CF'ers is stay out of the medical field. Become anything else but that. I regret it now. My health is still good 3 years later, but it did decline some ever since the infection.

Jennifer 24 w/CF