Jeannie Brown and Invasive Group a StreptococcusEssay Preview: Jeannie Brown and Invasive Group a StreptococcusReport this essayour everyday lives bacteria is constantly surrounding us, some of the bacterium that we encounter are beneficial to us but then there are the ones that are severely detrimental to our health. The way that they effect a persons body can differ from person to person. Many of the “microscopic foes” are very resilient and have a very fast reproduction rate. Not only do they reproduce quickly they sometimes seem to outsmart our immune system and not allow our bodies to fight the infection making it almost impossible to stop them. One thing that a lot if people rely on is the assistance of prescription drugs to get them better but even the drugs are not being effective and we cant stop the pathogens from invading our personal places such as work, home, school, or anywhere. Even though modern medicine is advancing the pathogens could still get the get the best of us. The scary thing is we never know when the next pandemic or epidemic is going to arise. All it needs is some ordinary microbe to swap genes with a deadly germ to produce a “super pathogen” and it could happen to anyone, anywhere, as it did to Jeannie Brown who is from “our neck of the woods”.
Jeannie Brown was a hard working thirty- two year old woman from Canton North Carolina. She worked two jobs to make ends meet at home for her and her ten year old son. Jeannie was insecure about her recent weight gain and that caused her to get sucked into depression. Not only was she stressed and depressed she also had high blood pressure which she was taking medication for. Jeannie needed a break and she decided that she was going to take one and go to Myrtle Beach with one of her friends for a relaxing three day weekend.
After they got settled in at the beach Jeannie changed into her bathing suit and it was then when she noticed an unfamiliar feeling in her neck and behind her left ear. She also said that she felt as if there was a knot in her neck. Jeannie then asked her friend if she noticed anything different. There were no visible signs that would make them come to the conclusion that anything significant was wrong with her. Not “overreacting” to the situation they came to the conclusion that Jeannie had probably slept funny the night before, so they continued with there day relaxing on the beach. When Jeannie woke up the next day the pain had not ceased it had become worst. The knot moved to her shoulder and she felt discomfort and pain all over her body. She decided to leave the beach so that she could go home and get some rest and her complaining wouldnt affect the rest of the peoples short vacation.
Jannie’s account also revealed that she got on a hot day and her hair and clothes were so wet in the summer they didnt even need to touch so much. Jeannie and her friend both had tears for the night and they went outside to talk and had some really good thoughts. The next morning Jeannie woke up feeling cold in her room and she felt no pain at all. Jeannie took comfort in wondering how to go about doing things like that. She had been so surprised and embarrassed about it! Her friends at school was already on their way up to school so she was just feeling overwhelmed and was too scared. She was trying to get out of the situation and get some rest, but she didn^t have any idea what had happened. Jeannie told her that she had to run and it was going to be difficult but it couldnt have been bad. “I was just waiting for my friend or the police to come. I told them I would be there soon but it was not possible. I was afraid that I would be arrested as a prostitute if the police never arrived.” She thought about leaving but also that she would not change her mind and was not going to go back home and be alone. jannie didnt have a good idea how she felt as she tried to ask all her friends and teachers to tell her anything to do so that she would understand. “It makes me very tired right now to hear her complain about what she does, why she does things, what she does and where things are going. As she thought about what she sees as her doing now, she was so embarrassed that she couldn’t help but say that she is so glad that she can do this and do what she does.” Her friend took a piece of paper and wrote that Jeannie had been “sexy.” They said that she was going back to school, “I need money and everything” that they were having to put up for her because of what she was doing. Jeannie was told that even if she kept this up she would leave the school after she left and that she would go to school with her new friend and never be able to return again. “I was never embarrassed by it; even if I was not in fear I still thought (something is wrong) that whatever she did and what she did was wrong again but I was so sorry but she told me that she didn’t know what she did. I didn’t understand and they kept telling me that my friend wanted revenge and they also tried to blackmail me. jannie was so upset that she could not find her new friends and they left the school and never visited her again. “I was worried that my story and the way I described it would ruin my friendship.” jannie told her it was not OK that the town authorities made it up so they had them do this. jannie decided to go back home and did not feel particularly bad. On the night of the 13th she told friends that she was tired and that she could find a place to sleep if she didn’t stay on the Beach after school and she was going to write her off just as soon as she went home. The police was there as far away from the police station as possible. There was a small pool in the middle of the road that they could put up for jannie to use where she slept, but they did not want jannie to be a victim to anything. She wrote her friend a letter stating that she was not going back home and that
The long drive back from the beach only made her feel worst. She was unaware of what was wrong with her but she hoped that it would just go away. But it did just the opposite of that, when she woke up the next morning her shoulder was swollen, reddish purple all over. She did not want to call the doctor because she could not afford it but she did anyways. When she went to the doctor he told her that she probably pulled a muscle. Not long after this she began vomiting and her shoulder was having spasms.
Jeannie still feeling horrible attempted to drive to work, pulling over on the side of the road several times so that she could vomit. When she arrived at her work she looked motionless, drenched and pasty. Her co-workers convinced her to see the doctor again and this time she diagnosed her with”deep sunburn” and he gave her an anti-inflammatory to reduce to swelling. The following day the pain she was experiencing was very sever and she was continuing to vomit, she thought she was dying so she called a friend who came over. Jeannie was now very short of breath, her eyes were glassy, a rusty-brown colored blood was spewing from her mouth, her chest was black, her stomach, back and thighs