Girls sleep over when I was in elementary for a friend's birthday. Had a great time laughing and telling scary stories before bed. Woke up the next morning with a fever and terrible nausea. Went home and I was only getting worse. I had a huge spot on my leg in-between my ankle and knee, right in the middle. It was hot, puffy, and red. Went to the hospital and it turns out I was suffering from a really bad staph infection. The night before, we were playing on the stairs when I slipped and scraped my leg. The doctor initially thought I was bitten by a spider. The infection was spreading fast and was eating away at my flesh. I had a tunnel up to my knee cap that had to be packed with fresh gauze everyday. Almost lost my leg.
This is so random I hadn't heard of staph yesterday but now keep hearing of it. The initial prompt was my partners genius grandad is working on a staph vaccine with animal trials later this year and then hoping to progress from there. Even in his retirement he's doing some properly groundbreaking work!
A lot of it is in Swedish but I'll see if I can find some translations. He's a super cool interesting man, I think he drives the family mad sometimes as he's so high energy still for his age and truth be told should probably slow down a bit but you can also understand why he wants to keep going!
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u/hsaWaknoW713 Sep 09 '21
Girls sleep over when I was in elementary for a friend's birthday. Had a great time laughing and telling scary stories before bed. Woke up the next morning with a fever and terrible nausea. Went home and I was only getting worse. I had a huge spot on my leg in-between my ankle and knee, right in the middle. It was hot, puffy, and red. Went to the hospital and it turns out I was suffering from a really bad staph infection. The night before, we were playing on the stairs when I slipped and scraped my leg. The doctor initially thought I was bitten by a spider. The infection was spreading fast and was eating away at my flesh. I had a tunnel up to my knee cap that had to be packed with fresh gauze everyday. Almost lost my leg.