Wow is all I can say. Off Dania doing our regular thing we decided to help clean up a little and remove some trash that so many aholes leave behind. (can I say ahole??). My buddy was weighted down pretty good and we had a decent current kicking so we were kind of crawling on the bottom heading back to the boat. Long story short he punctured his thumb on a barnacle. Looked pretty deep when we got on board. He did have gloves on, but it went right through. About 2 weeks later he went to his doc at the VA because it seemed to have gotten infected. Within 6 hours he was admitted and under the knife. A bacterial infection had made it way into his bone. They had to remove the tip of his bone on the thumb and keep him in there for 4 days running some massive quantities of anti biotics.
4 different strands of bacteria were found as was 2 different living organisms. 18 Cases in the US from these particular bacteria (I guess they sually travel together??) and 9 out of the 18 have died. Pretty damn freeky!!!! I told him he should've put peroxide on it lol..... ANyway, the wound was so deep the doc said he doesn't think it would've mattered.
Lesson learned..... Be careful and get into the doc asap if you even suspect a wound is getting infected from diving. At the rate it was spreading within another 2 weeks he would've been in some very, very seious issues.
Sorry if this was a little hard to follow. I am at 41,000 feet and starting a descen so in a little bit of a rush!
4 different strands of bacteria were found as was 2 different living organisms. 18 Cases in the US from these particular bacteria (I guess they sually travel together??) and 9 out of the 18 have died. Pretty damn freeky!!!! I told him he should've put peroxide on it lol..... ANyway, the wound was so deep the doc said he doesn't think it would've mattered.
Lesson learned..... Be careful and get into the doc asap if you even suspect a wound is getting infected from diving. At the rate it was spreading within another 2 weeks he would've been in some very, very seious issues.
Sorry if this was a little hard to follow. I am at 41,000 feet and starting a descen so in a little bit of a rush!