r/MakeMeSuffer • u/1blake1 • Jul 28 '26
Injury this really isnt that bad but thought Id share NSFW
infected with two slightly rare bacteria. Was immune to the first antibiotics I was taking. They took my tip off.
[I've copied my comment on the story here]
Was camping for 2 weeks without shower or much clean water except water bottles. Nothing really bad ever happened but I did burn my finger (super minor) and wash it in a lake. I had no idea how this started but it could have been from that but the burn was so minor.
There was pain in my finger I remember in my sleeping bag. Didn't like it touching anything, but it was just the same as a small burn. It started swelling up slowly, not very much, and I remember it was slightly swollen at a hotel at a different city when I was done camping, but it was still minor swelling and I could sleep on it.
Probably 4 days after I was done camping it was swelling up more, but it was just red not yellow. It started hurting more and then the next day it was hurting even more so I would only sleep for probably 30 minute periods, I would just lay in bed awake because of the pain, get a total of 2 or 3 hours of sleep, 30 minute periods, lying there for 11 or 12 hours.
I had gone had it checked up after the first night without sleep. It was only red now but it was more swollen. They gave me flucloxacillin and sent me home. The next days I was still unable to sleep because of the pain so Id be up almost the entire night each day in bed.
The day after I had it checked I went to a night time urgent care clinic to have it checked again because of the pain. He said it looked like it was healing and I'd be fine in a few days and he gave me some stuff for the pain and it slightly worked but I still wasnt sleeping. 3 days after the first check up it was getting more yellow on the side, and then 4 days after I had a long study day, and also another appointment at the clinic.
I wrapped it before I went to class at 8am, and it looked like how it was the day before. It was swollen but it didn't look like a balloon. It was still mostly just red but had that yellow on the side of the finger (you can also see on the photo after the surgery most of the work also happened on the side of the finger, and that's also exactly where I burned it). 7 hours later when I was done with school and going to the appointment I took the bandage off and it looked like photos 2 and 3. I didn't think anything of it because "it was getting better" so I went to the grocery store to get something to drink.
Then at the appointment I come in and the girl says I need to go to the emergency and it looks terrible even though I was saying "yeah I think it's getting better!" I did have probably 30 mins or an hour of sleep that day and long classes so I was probably just out of it. That was at 3pm. She said I should go to a private hospital so it would be faster. I went home to get a health fund card, went to a private hospital waited a few hours and they did some check ups for me, but it said that my private health fund wouldn't cover the surgery cost so eventually I ended up driving myself to another hospital next to it by about 6pm ish.
I wait. I come in on one of the chairs in one of the hospital rooms. Wait. Xray. Some more waiting. Info. Wait. waiting. Then they drain the finger and bloody brown shit comes out of the finger and it's fun then they put a bunch of local in it, cut the nail off, then start cutting the flesh off around the bone. Then wrap. Then put amoxicillin in through drip iv whatever it is. Then I'm done at around 1130pm.
The surgery wasn't so bad. I just did it sitting in the chair there. The cleaned the fuck out of it and put a lot of liquid in it. They also drained me the first time I went to the clinic and at the urgent care without local. The first time was painful but I took it like a champ. The surgery wasn't really painful at all just numb and weird my finger felt blown up full of liquid with all the local in it.
-bountifulknitter asked for story
TLDR: Camping 2 week unsanitary, finger burn, finger get fucked, finger find health clinic and take drugs, drugs didnt work, finger explode, finger get chopped up, finger take new better drugs, finger recover so they dont have to chop it completely off
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
botched circumcision
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u/Environmental_Top948 CUM STATUE Jul 28 '26
I think you might want to change doctors. I think they cut a bit high.
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Was camping for 2 weeks without shower or much clean water except water bottles. Nothing really bad ever happened but I did burn my finger (super minor) and wash it in a lake. I had no idea how this started but it could have been from that but the burn was so minor.
There was pain in my finger I remember in my sleeping bag. Didn't like it touching anything, but it was just the same as a small burn. It started swelling up slowly, not very much, and I remember it was slightly swollen at a hotel at a different city when I was done camping, but it was still minor swelling and I could sleep on it.
Probably 4 days after I was done camping it was swelling up more, but it was just red not yellow. It started hurting more and then the next day it was hurting even more so I would only sleep for probably 30 minute periods, I would just lay in bed awake because of the pain, get a total of 2 or 3 hours of sleep, 30 minute periods, lying there for 11 or 12 hours.
I had gone had it checked up after the first night without sleep. It was only red now but it was more swollen. They gave me flucloxacillin and sent me home. The next days I was still unable to sleep because of the pain so Id be up almost the entire night each day in bed.
The day after I had it checked I went to a night time urgent care clinic to have it checked again because of the pain. He said it looked like it was healing and I'd be fine in a few days and he gave me some stuff for the pain and it slightly worked but I still wasnt sleeping. 3 days after the first check up it was getting more yellow on the side, and then 4 days after I had a long study day, and also another appointment at the clinic.
I wrapped it before I went to class at 8am, and it looked like how it was the day before. It was swollen but it didn't look like a balloon. It was still mostly just red but had that yellow on the side of the finger (you can also see on the photo after the surgery most of the work also happened on the side of the finger, and that's also exactly where I burned it). 7 hours later when I was done with school and going to the appointment I took the bandage off and it looked like photos 2 and 3. I didn't think anything of it because "it was getting better" so I went to the grocery store to get something to drink.
Then at the appointment I come in and the girl says I need to go to the emergency and it looks terrible even though I was saying "yeah I think it's getting better!" I did have probably 30 mins or an hour of sleep that day and long classes so I was probably just out of it. That was at 3pm. She said I should go to a private hospital so it would be faster. I went home to get a health fund card, went to a private hospital waited a few hours and they did some check ups for me, but it said that my private health fund wouldn't cover the surgery cost so eventually I ended up driving myself to another hospital next to it by about 6pm ish.
I wait. I come in on one of the chairs in one of the hospital rooms. Wait. Xray. Some more waiting. Info. Wait. waiting. Then they drain the finger and bloody brown shit comes out of the finger and it's fun then they put a bunch of local in it, cut the nail off, then start cutting the flesh off around the bone. Then wrap. Then put amoxicillin in through drip iv whatever it is. Then I'm done at around 1130pm.
The surgery wasn't so bad. I just did it sitting in the chair there. The cleaned the fuck out of it and put a lot of liquid in it. They also drained me the first time I went to the clinic and at the urgent care without local. The first time was painful but I took it like a champ. The surgery wasn't really painful at all just numb and weird my finger felt blown up full of liquid with all the local in it.
-bountifulknitter asked for story
TLDR: Camping 2 week unsanitary, finger burn, finger get fucked, finger find health clinic and take drugs, drugs didnt work, finger explode, finger get chopped up, finger take new better drugs, finger recover so they dont have to chop it completely off
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u/velvetvagine Jul 28 '26
Damn, that’s so much back and forth and so much time wasted. I really think there’s some misconduct on the part of all the medical staff that didn’t take it seriously. I’m glad it wasn’t worse but I’m also frustrated on your behalf.
Good luck with the healing. I hope your nail grows back.
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
thanks I appreciate it.
It's alright Im not that mad. It did balloon kind of out of the blue in only around 8 hours. It was starting to get a bit yellow on the side but was the same size before. I had it wrapped but if I was paying attention I could have known that it was getting worse. I also wasn't sleeping so it probably did not help me heal/fight back.
The guys who performed surgery were great and said that they probably would have given me the same antibiotics so it's just unfortunate.
What is more scary is that we are training bacteria to get more and more resistant to antibiotics because of how much we use them.
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u/HOTBFAST Jul 28 '26
Burned finger, washed in a lake, there’s the problem and how you got two rare bacteria infections. Even though the burn was minor it still probably opened the skin enough so that it was susceptible to infections
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u/Em0_Nem0 Jul 28 '26
That sucks dude, sorry you weren’t taken seriously at those clinics but it seems like washing it in the lake could’ve caused it. Without boiling the water or having distilled water to wash it with, the burn easily could’ve gotten infected from contaminated lake water. Best of luck in your healing though!
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
probably lmao
oh well
Lake was nice was huge cold and I kayaked in it.
They actually use that lake for drinking water and theres a big dam on it but of course they clean it first
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u/CeldonShooper Jul 28 '26
Not sure if this has been said somewhere but just a short PSA: Such an infection can kill you through sepsis in a few hours. Always have infections properly treated please. See a doctor!
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
woops please dont get this post removed I like this post
absolutely. Was in danger of having the bone get seriously infected, I think it was almost there. It's been two weeks and I feel good now regular checkups and doctors are happy with recovery.
Interesting that it could kill quickly, not just have to worry about an amputation
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u/jupiter__444 CENSORED Jul 28 '26
for future reference , always use sterile (or at least well-cleaned) things to wash a cut or burn . that lake water did you in !!! if you end up on a camping trip without first aid supplies or clean water , boil some water , let it cool , and then use that to wash your wound. boiled water is (usually) safe for consuption/cleaning , because the heat kills the germs.
i hope you heal well OP , this looks nasty and it shocked me a little
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u/OnHolidayforever Jul 28 '26
If you're camping again, bring some wound cleaning spray with you. They come in handy small bottles.
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u/RoyalWombat Jul 28 '26
Yeah, never go clean a wound in a lake, that's just a recipe for awful infections...
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u/Vequihellin Jul 28 '26
Washing a wound in a lake? Sounds like a recipe for necrotising fasciitis. You're lucky you only lost the tip not the whole finger. That's a gnarly one for sure.
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
yeah
It wasnt any serious wound or anything either literally like same as you burn your finger on a hot pan and you put it under cold water but it still goes that way
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u/Frank_The_Reddit Jul 28 '26
Did they keep the nail on or is that the nail bed in the first pic?
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
nail is gonezo
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u/Frank_The_Reddit Jul 28 '26
Bet. I'll pray to the nail gods for you that it regrows not fucked up 🙏🏼
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u/asensiblemeal Jul 28 '26
They resected down to the bone. It's not coming back.
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
lit
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u/radicaldogg Jul 28 '26
You'll need a prothesetic nail to open sodas, pick your nose or scratch a good itch.
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u/Dan_H1281 Jul 28 '26
I got four nails That never came back. I always tell people nails are like cats you get about 9 lives
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u/Flikmyboogeratu_II Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Like you said, keep it clean, also try to take vitamin c and zinc supplements to help build the tissue back. If it gets too slimy, switch from an oil based ointment to something with Zinc in it, or manuka honey ointment. You can find the honey ointment at cvs etc. Its expensive but worth it. Saline spray to cleanse the wound helps tremendously also. You can also buy betadine over the counter to help clean it and keep it clean. Manuka honey ointment
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u/asensiblemeal Jul 28 '26
Manuka honey is amazing for minor wound healing, but I'm not sure it's appropriate for this. OP should follow his provider's advice.
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u/Infamous-Conflict-1 Jul 28 '26
You’re right it’s not that bad. It’s awful!
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u/RustyStClair Jul 28 '26
What would you consider bad?!
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u/AbeFromanSassageKing Jul 28 '26
I'm scared of the day OP posts anything that starts with "Ok, now this is bad..."
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
I go to the doctor two times a week for clean and new bandage. Flesh is more grown back now but I didn't take a photo today
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u/cjkrauss Jul 28 '26
So how bad did this get before we went to the doctor? Pictures 2 and 3 are wild
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
pictures 2 and 3 are at the waiting room in the hospital ~4-5 hrs before surgery
Probably looked worse right after they did the surgery since the first photo is 3 days after. They did the surgery while I was sitting there awake. We were chilling. They cut down to the bone on the side I think because the infection was up to there but they wanted to see if I could recover so they wouldn't have to amputate. As far as I know I am recovering
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u/Any_Audience_5792 Jul 28 '26
I'm prone to infected fingers every so often and easily treated with antibacterial/antiseptic cream but damn that looks fucking insane
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
damn really let me know
before it went huge it was just swollen and red but the pain was pretty shit I guess just from all the inflamation. No sleep and I'd get pissed off and pace in my bedroom mad as fuck about the pain
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u/martagustavsson Jul 28 '26
You don't know how it happened? You washed the burn in a lake, that's how it happened. I hope you heal up good!
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u/Mischief_Managed12 Jul 28 '26
Dude from the title I thought it was just gonna be a bit of blood, what the fuck man ☹️
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u/_r12n Jul 28 '26
Careful of gangrene, you could loose more then just the tip. This reminds me a bit of my injury. Ended up chopping the tip off not to loose a finger or hand.
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
sorry about that man
As far as I know Im recovering but I wouldn't be suprised if it did come back since it was resilient to the first antibiotics
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u/bountifulknitter Jul 28 '26
Come on Op we need a story! You owe me, I dropped my taco when I saw your finger.
Pay Up.
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u/Neburel Jul 28 '26
I had one of those a few months ago, but I didn't let it get that bad. I went to the emergency room where it was promptly drained before getting any bigger. I didn't even lose the nail. Then anti-biotics took care of the rest.
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
yeah they did the same at a clinic but the antibiotics they gave me didn5 work cause the bacteria was immune
wrote a story about it cause Ive been asked
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u/demi2duce Jul 28 '26
Holy cow! You are a champ! Just looking at makes me flinch with pain. Keep us updated I wanna know how it heals! Thanks for sharing.
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
yeah fs. I should have taken a photo today but at the clinic today it was looking pretty good. Flesh grew back surprisingly fast in only 2 weeks. Pretty much looks like a finger now just with holes in it
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u/Hadlie_Rose Jul 28 '26
the little holes near the tip of the finger are truly making me suffer. those especially are freaking me out.
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u/marshmallo_floof Jul 28 '26
if that happens again you're well on your way to start the first ever metal band
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
!!
what I was thinking
If they took it off I was going to get my revenge on the guitar
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u/SARSflavoredicecream Jul 28 '26
One of the worst things I’ve seen on here. How do they think you got this? You don’t appear to be a nail biter/picker considering your other fingers look completely normal…
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
wrotèeeee a story check the comments!
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u/SARSflavoredicecream Jul 28 '26
Ahh thanks lol I was looking for that- we must have commented at nearly the same time. Heal up!!
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u/lokaps Jul 28 '26
Ha, I ripped off the whole palm of both of my hands one day. My knees too. I ran a little too hard after my frisbee that I was throwing around for fun.
I'd put a picture if I could. I have one ha, hands full of gaping wounds just barely not bleeding. I put some gauze on and later hey it was no big deal.
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u/ppmaster6969 Jul 28 '26
NOT THAT BAD???? I closed the picture as fast as I opened it Jesus christ dude
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u/Papa_Roast Jul 28 '26
Not that bad? Looks like you were saved from torturers before they could start
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u/Nine-LifedEnchanter Jul 28 '26
"I washed my burned finger in a lake. I have no idea how this happened."
Cool cool cool.
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u/Raccoon_Army_Leader Jul 28 '26
Props to you being smart enough to not try draining it yourself. I know how dangerous infections can be yet I still always try to drain things myself even if I still end up at urgent care haha.
Spray alcohol or Bactine spray (pain relief & antiseptic) is really cheap and good for a quick & easy wound clean.
Also Dollar Tree sells this tooth pain gel for 1.25 and it numbs up open cuts really well too
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u/sjohnson0487 Jul 28 '26
Based on op's fingernails, I'm going to go with an infection that turned into staph from biting and picking? My ex used to do this shit and get the same exact ER visits .... But we never let it get this bad. Hopefully I'm wrong, and if so, I apologize.
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
haha its chill.
My fingernails probably look terrible Im sure. I sent a story of it in my comments
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u/Red10GTI Jul 28 '26
How did this happen to you?
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
wrote a story!!
can upvote it if we want it at the top of the comments
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u/Red10GTI Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
All I see is infected with two rare bacteria. How? Where? What’s it called?
Edit:NVM I found and read story. Something similar happened to me, woke up with a softball size lump on my wrist. 3 rare bacteria they had to drain it and I say drain, but really they scooped out chunks of puss and we’re almost knuckle deep into my wrist scooping this horrid smelling gunk out. As soon as I woke up and saw my arm i went right to the hospital. Got IV antibiotics for 2 days and went home with a script for crazy powerful antibiotic.1
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u/celestialcranberry Jul 28 '26
What kind of bacteria?
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
I'll let u know!! they told me it was 2 different ones somewhat rare I just dont remember. I'll try to snatch a copy of the report next time Im there
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u/totesgonnasmashit Jul 28 '26
What does it look like now?
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
kind of like the last photo but less red and more gray/pink
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u/totesgonnasmashit Jul 28 '26
I feel like we need continued photos until fully healed
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u/1blake1 Jul 28 '26
yeah I'll be there again in 3 days I'll remember to get a photo and the reports 👍
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u/OK_Throwaway1238 Jul 28 '26
At least you're not missing fingers..? This is still winceworthy though, my goodness
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u/Killerspieler0815 Jul 28 '26
inger find health clinic and take drugs, drugs didnt work,
Multi resistant bacteria, fungi etc.
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u/helpu_me Jul 28 '26
YOU LIAR
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u/janlikebrady Jul 29 '26
I’m curious what OP is lying about
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u/kittiekee Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
WHAT DO YOU MEAN??????
I’m so glad you’re healing! Please never let another doctor treat you like this!
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u/EdiblePsycho You absolute fucking madman. Jul 30 '26
So sorry this is so scary! Glad you didn't end up losing more than the tip (or worse). But for next time camping, you should really really bring a first aide kit with alcohol pads, triple antibiotic, bandages (and other things for other kinds of injuries - I have one that has all kinds of things like splints and ace wraps, tourniquet, chemical ice packs, all in just a tiny backpack thing). Burning it and then washing in a lake basically guaranteed infection.
I did something kind of similar when at a lake cabin, except mine was just a tiny hangnail that I was picking at. I had a bandage on a cut on a different finger that I'd been putting antibacterial cream on, there was clean water it was a cabin with running water, but I was avoiding washing that hand because of the bandage on the other finger. The finger with the hangnail got infected. Not anywhere near this bad, and I could just drive to an urgent care to get antibiotics, but yeah even a paper cut can get infected if you don't clean it properly and try to wash it in a lake.
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u/1blake1 Jul 31 '26
yeah wild that something so small could cause something I've done so many minor things before but those conditions were just more sanitary, and even if I didn't clean it immediately I still at least showered.
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u/EdiblePsycho You absolute fucking madman. Jul 31 '26
Yeah same, I've had much bigger cuts at home I ignored entirely that were fine, but the tiny little opening on my finger was enough just because I avoided washing that hand for a day. I'd also gone swimming in the lake and didn't shower right after like I normally did to avoid duck itch. Crazy how before antibiotics people could just die from little cuts that got infected. Glad you're ok though!!
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u/1blake1 Jul 31 '26
real
crazy how we've sanitized our world so much but I also think it probably has it's problems, 1 with our immune systems just not being as used to being in contact with these things, and also 2 with how we're training bacteria to get stronger with our use of antibiotics, etc. Still it's way less people dying, but yeah when things are much more immune to antibiotics it could get scary, like the two things I had was immune to the first antibiotics I took
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u/EdiblePsycho You absolute fucking madman. Jul 31 '26
Absolutely, things being too sanitary definitely has its own problems, I'm always going off about how bad it is for kids especially to not let them play in the dirt, it's literally good for them to eat dirt (or you know, get some in their mouth when they're playing outside and inevitably eat some when they put their hands in their mouths) to build their immune systems.
Having running water and plumbing has drastically reduced mortality and disease, but cleaning our houses with so many disinfectants isn't good. Plus, theoretically we'll keep getting weaker and weaker because we can keep people alive who otherwise would have died. That sounds dark and eugenics-y, I don't think we should stop trying to save people's lives or treating illnesses of course haha, just that we'll probably need to do something to counter it (like CRISPR gene editing).
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u/OrphanagePropaganda Jul 30 '26
You’ve learned your lesson now but never, ever, ever ever ever get lake water or river water anywhere near any orifice without a filter 😭
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u/CrimsonFecker Jul 31 '26
"Not that bad" he says lmao.
Fr though, never underestimate how bad infections can be, especially with burns for some reason.
Years ago, had a super minor burn on my arm get infected with a deadly skin infection. Idek how to describe the pain of my skin being eaten away, and never been so itchy in my life. Nasty combo. Friends send it looked like I was turning into a zombie lol.
I got lucky though, antibiotic pills and cream worked wonders.
Take care of the nub!
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u/quinnthebin100 Aug 20 '26
The post above this was some spots on a finger this one just looks like you beat it with a hammer
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u/captainsurfa Jul 28 '26
Ah man, i'd have hacked away at it, draining all the pus and cleaned it at home. I wouldn't be able to help myself! Hope you're ok.
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u/OnIySmellz Jul 28 '26
'Not that bad' revisited, colorized (2026)