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Source: http://www.thespec.com/news/local/a...d-couple-dies-from-c-difficile-10-weeks-apart
* Fri Jul 01 2011
Married couple dies from C. Difficile 10 weeks apart
At 85, Thomas Dawson accepted he would die from lung cancer.
He?d lived a good life and believed he had enough time left to see his granddaughter?s wedding in August and his 65th wedding anniversary in December.
He died April 8, only a couple of weeks after his diagnosis. But it wasn?t cancer that killed him ? it was C. difficile.
And he had no idea the same gruesome disease would also claim his wife ? 84-year-old Margaret Dawson ? 10 weeks after him.
The painful infection attacks the gut causing relentless toxic diarrhea, fever, swelling, and dehydration, often perforating the bowl and sometimes causing septic shock.
?It was like reading a really bad novel,? said daughter Elaine Smith, of the moment she found out her mom was sick with the same infection that killed her father weeks before...
* Fri Jul 01 2011
Married couple dies from C. Difficile 10 weeks apart
At 85, Thomas Dawson accepted he would die from lung cancer.
He?d lived a good life and believed he had enough time left to see his granddaughter?s wedding in August and his 65th wedding anniversary in December.
He died April 8, only a couple of weeks after his diagnosis. But it wasn?t cancer that killed him ? it was C. difficile.
And he had no idea the same gruesome disease would also claim his wife ? 84-year-old Margaret Dawson ? 10 weeks after him.
The painful infection attacks the gut causing relentless toxic diarrhea, fever, swelling, and dehydration, often perforating the bowl and sometimes causing septic shock.
?It was like reading a really bad novel,? said daughter Elaine Smith, of the moment she found out her mom was sick with the same infection that killed her father weeks before...