Fisherman nursing a nasty wound after almost losing his life to a flesh-eating bacteria
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:55 pm
It started with a minor accident a couple of weeks ago, when he was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, near Ozona, Florida.
“I had hooked my hand in the afternoon not thinking anything of it,” Walton said. “It was amazing how fast it was spreading.
Small blisters on his hands later turned black. After a couple of days, he knew the antibiotics a doctor gave him weren’t working, so he drove himself to the emergency room in the middle of the night.
“They admitted me right off the spot and got me into surgery an hour or half or so,” he said.
Walton says doctors told him he had a very rare flesh-eating bacteria. Right now, they are working to determine what strain.
“When I woke up and [saw] my hand still attached, I was happy,” he said.
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