I wrote about this here before but if I get TMIs, so be it.
I had a surgery and caught c-diff. My early symptoms were not pooping, just stomach pain. I told a doc but they thought it might be a bladder infection and tested me, it wasn't. Well, I got sicker and sicker, still no diarrhea, until one day I couldn't get up. I was weak, shaky and sick and thought it was flu. That’s when the diarrhoea started, and it was D like no other. More like dysentery, just a gross smelling, tea colored liquid that leaked from my ass 24/7. It's not like going to the bathroom, there is no control at all. I went to the ER, where they diagnosed it. My bowel had also become completely infected, pancolitis they said, and I became septic. Probably because my symptoms were backwards. Specialist said it was worst case he’d ever seen. They were going to yank my bowel out to save my life if my pressure dropped one more point. I sat and stared at that machine, willing it not to drop.
I spent 7 days in ICU, on 3 different antibiotic drips and painkillers, but my bowel recovered thank God. .
This was before they all started doing fecal transplants, which is now standard. Back then it was just a few hospitals. It sounds funny but it's the best way to fix this terrible disease.
It took me months to completely recover. We bleached the bathroom nightly, bleached sheets, etc. No way did I ever want that disease again. Thing is, once you recover and it's been years, it doesn't come back unless you take antibiotics. The spores are always there but you have to wipe out intestinal flora to allow it to take over again, and antibiotics can do that so I won't take them. I never heard of eating like a pig doing it but maybe. Or maybe she was stupid enough to take antibiotics.
If you have c-diff it doesn't hurt to shit, it just hurts all the time. The smell is god-awful so she’d know. And they tell you not to eat high fiber foods, give your gut a rest. Yogurt, soft processed foods. I lived on pancakes for months. I weighed 80 lbs when I left the hospital. I didn't start at 500 of course, but I was still quite sick
Here, people with c-diff' are placed in sterile rooms alone, and everybody gowns up before they come in, like Covid. Hard to imagine she got it from a roommate, however, it is a hospital acquired infection. It’s nothing she should be joking around with-she should go now. But it's hard for me to think somebody who ever had that disease would not recognize it again. The smell is like nothing you have ever smelled. So maybe it's something else but she is dumb to just ”rest.” I dislike Chantel but nobody should die in their own shit like that. As appropriate as it may be, I don't even want it for her.