Staph Infection: A Case Study

When I hear the word grit I think of my brother. My brother had a state baseball tournament and ALL my family was there. 3 days after his baseball tournament my family was supposed to go to Omaha for a family vacation, instead, we took a trip down to Iowa City to the children's hospital. In July after Kalebś baseball game, I was on my way down to Centerville with my aunt and uncle. I wanted to spend time with my cousins and I could just go to Omaha with them. The day after I got to Centerville, my mom called my uncle and said that Kaleb was unresponsive and was in cardiac arrest, so the ambulance was taking him to the hospital. His temp was 104 and if he didn't get to the hospital quick he was going to die. After several tests, they FINALLY
He had staph infection in his ankle which then transformed into a very rare flesh eating disease called Necrotizing Fasciitis. The infection was spreading quick and they needed to get it out of his blood stream as soon as possible. The doctors came in and were telling my mom about how deadly this infection actually was. Kaleb then came to realization that if the doctors didn't do the best they could to get all the infection out he was going to die. My brother was in the hospital for a month and a half. After 5 very long and obviously super painful surgeries, the doctors were able to get all the infection out. The cut on his ankle when he first got to the hospital it was just a small little cut, by the end of all his surgeries, his ankle was gashed open into an L shape. During his stay at the hospital, the Iowa Hawkeye football players came to visit him. I wasn't there at that point but my mom took lots of pictures of it. Kaleb also, got to play wheelchair basketball and do all sorts of cool things in the hospital game room. After being in the hospital for a little over a month, he started to realize that he might not be able to play sports