In short my valentines day wipe out that resulted in what I though was the corky from hell and a few stiches....had me passed out on a medical room floor with needles being stuck in me everywhere, oxy mask on the works, whilst they debated calling for the Ambo and going into ICU...turns out less than 48 hrs after a perfectly clean cut and what seemed to be a 'sterile' surgery room gave me a dose of Septicemia,
I'd never heard of such before, and now I know first hand all about it....make sure you google it or maybe check this link, If i'd know about I would have gone in earlier, very lucky boy...3 days with my leg up may kill me though, and for the record, the pain as a result of the infection, massive...

Anyway if you dont know about this stuff worth making yourself aware, I have had worse messier/dirty/cuts before this, never given a hoot, think the bacteria may have come from the medical centre....read up and hope doesnt happen to you!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002331/

thats no fun hope you get back on top of things soon.

many many many years ago, i was sailing with dodgy footstraps and started to wear away the skin on top of my foot, got some medical tape the type that comes in those metal tinnny things from chemists and wrapped up the foot and kept sailing got sand/mud etc in it and the next day the infection was up my leg and into the groin, not to mention the fevers and cold sweats etc.
ended up getting a penicillin shot in the backside and heaps of other antibiotics to get rid of it.
if it happened these days it'd probably kill me

A few hundred years ago people died from cuts all the time. Then some Evil Corrupt Scientist discovered how to stop that.

Now the bugs are coming back, one at a time.. Run for your lives!

we used to use Mercurochrome back in the 20th century, not sure if you can get it now.

stanly said...

we used to use Mercurochrome back in the 20th century, not sure if you can get it now.

Yeah there is nothing better than mercurochrome. You can still get it at the chemist warehouse. It really dries the cuts & wounds & kills any bacteria. A small bottle is about $6 & will last you for ages. (Don't ask someone under 50 for it as they will probably look at you funny).
Wonderful stuff imho

Jeffrosail said...

stanly said...

we used to use Mercurochrome back in the 20th century, not sure if you can get it now.

Yeah there is nothing better than mercurochrome. You can still get it at the chemist warehouse. It really dries the cuts & wounds & kills any bacteria. A small bottle is about $6 & will last you for ages. (Don't ask someone under 50 for it as they will probably look at you funny).
Wonderful stuff imho

There's a reason "mercurochrome" starts with "mercur". Do you really want to put heavy metals onto an open wound? Sure it kills the bugs, but it does a few other things too

Betadine & superglue they hardly use stitches anymore The medical grade superglue is purple it has a dye that's the only difference the doctor told me & I've been gluing myself up for years & as a carport & awning installer i get cuts all the time .
My uncle went in for a knee replacement & got golden staff 18 months in hospital but they did save his leg

Thanks for all the tips,
I now have a home made tonic made up of superglue, food dye, mecurechrome, medicinal honey, magic chinese red goo, I mixed it all up, squeezed it into an old condom I found, figure I can cut the tip off and squeeze the goo into the cut, it safley housed in a container labeled, '**** happens' in my van, along with a bottle of rum to kill the pain!...thinking of mass production and setting up a stand at the markets..just need name..

1 week later, cant take stiches out yet as area to sus and tender, and been dosed up on whole lot more drugs, to beat it..as the bacteria were starting to win again!
I get it beat then it comes back like at the end of the day for revenge (a lot like my ex wife, should rename her Sepis!

What I have learnt, leg up stay put do not move, means exactly that.. seems that going to gym (only did top half) the day after the cut was not smart and may have actually just pumped disease around my body (not that I thought I was diseased at the time just cut and bruised), Doing my Mr Mum routine for my girls, school pick ups, cooking cleaning etc, is aparently not rest either?
And dont leave it so long to get the doctors to check out the injury, seems harden up princess doesnt cut it with these nasty little parasites!

And that big impact cut/collsions like mine or car/bike crashes etc where its not just a cut but massive internal bleeding/bruising combine with a deep cut, mine was right into the muscle, is like Porn/Pizza & Beer for the Sepis Bacteria!

Doing my googling of 'septicemia' i am thankfull that I have been keeping super fit and looking after myself, I'm sure that has helped me avoid the bad side of 50%.

And of course when your out injured, it bloody blows, or is perfect beach weather...and we have had all that in the last week and more to come...
very jelly bags here!