Name: Ven Russ L.

Abesta Subject: CPH Schedule: Th 8-11 AM; 1-7 PM The Case of Jeannie Brown Summary: This story is about Jeannie Browns case of invasive Group A streptococcus. Jeannie Brown is a woman who had a ten-year-old son named Cameron. She worked in two full-time jobs: the night shift at the Handy Pantry convenience store in Canton, North Carolina, her hometown, and then from 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. pulling patient files at Blue Ridge Bone and Joint in nearby Asheville. Later in the story, she decided to rest at Myrtle Beach, knowing that her best friend, named Vivian, will be there for 3 days weekend leave and leaving Cameron to her mother while she is away. 1st day of her beach day, she felt something and she kept on rubbing her neck behind her ear. Saturday that weekend, all over her body felt very sore but no red marks on her neck. Then later, she went home thanking Vivian via note. As time flew by, her condition got worst from just pain all over her body to having reddish purple, swollen, painful shoulder. It worsens to vomiting, nausea and spasms. Jeannie called Cassandra Ledbetter thinking she might be a good help. Later on, she went for a checkup. One doctor gave her vicodin thinking she just had a pain and another gave steroids thinking that she might just have a sunburn reaction. Later in the story, her symptoms added. She was under Dr. Micheal Keoh when her condition was too severe and was really in need of intensive care. Dr. Micheal Keoh did everything he could to save the life of Jeannie Brown but in the end they were out of luck. The case of Jeannie Brown was that, her sickness was counterattacked very late. If only the time she felt something odd about how she feel and that when she really felt that it was really strange to have felt that way, she could have went to the doctor and insist to observe her. Another problem was that Jeannie Brown didnt want to be admitted to the hospital or to be checked up because she was thinking that it would cause a lot. Another problem was that the physicians she contacted to know what was happening to her lacked information about that kind of sickness. The first symptoms were like common to same other sickness were they just concluded that what Jeannie Brown felt at first was due to muscle strain or over fatigue or possibly because of too much sunburn. The time they realized that the disease Jeannie Brown was carrying was a serious case was when her friends witnessed how ill Jeannie was. So when they saw her, they really insisted to bring her to the hospital. There was really an odd thing about the disease. Her immune system were normal like it never had an infection or like the bacteria disguised itself good enough not to be detected by the immune system. Her disease was really bizarre. She was refers or transferred to Dr. Kathryn Freyfogle who is a kidney specialist because she needed a more advance intensive care unit than what they have in that hospital. Later on, Jeannie Brown died. The sickness that killed her was because of the invasive group A streptococcus were the media called it flesh-eating bacteria. The bacteria had turned Jeannies kidney into a mass of jellylike pus and her heart into a squishy sponge. A microbial war had been raging inside her body for at least a week, the rapidly multiplying bacteria knifing through muscles, organ, and blood-vessel cells while a few meager white cells tried to tackle them. The pain of tissue being consumed must be excruciating. Jennies left shoulder muscles, where she had felt a knot, were eaten relics of flesh. Toxins had spread throughout her body, the by-products of the rampaging bacterial feast. Her dying kidney could not filter the poisons from her blood, and her constant vomiting was her bodys vain attempt to expel them. As the toxins rose, Jeannies blood pressure sank, and capillaries already being decimated by the bacteria gave way, releasing more blood beneath the skin, adding the black and purple mottling and turning her eyes red. Her blood was acidic.