Steve McMichael is responding well to antibiotics given him to treat MRSA, a staph infection that is resistant to some medications. His improvement has left his wife Misty optimistic that the former Bears star, who has ALS, can leave a New Lenox hospital Tuesday with IV antibiotics.
"He's Mongo," she said in a statement Sunday, "and his DNA is different."
McMichael was rushed to the emergency room Thursday with what Misty at first feared was pneumonia, He was instead diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and put on three antibiotics to treat it. Saturday, though, he was diagnosed with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, and his family asked for prayers.