03-17-2009, 06:31 AM
Punamom,
I'm so glad your son is OK after that horrible experience.
The flesh-eating threat is very real to me because of what a dear friend went through with her 16 year old son. Not at Ahalanui, but vibrio /flesh-eating bacteria.
He too got sick within a couple hours of a small puncture on his foot. The infection spread so fast the hospital couldn't keep up with it. They started with amputating his foot but it kept one step ahead ... finally they took the leg at the highest point possible. He was on life support and the doctors said it was time to disconnect, that he was gone.
Somehow at the eleventh hour, he rallied, and survived.
He uses a prosthetic leg now but the fit is difficult because of the height of the amputation.
There is vibrio (flesh-eating) in the area. The man who died there (2001?) had both vibrio and staph ...
To me it is just not worth it. He was a healthy teenager, my friend's son.
I'm so glad your son is OK after that horrible experience.
The flesh-eating threat is very real to me because of what a dear friend went through with her 16 year old son. Not at Ahalanui, but vibrio /flesh-eating bacteria.
He too got sick within a couple hours of a small puncture on his foot. The infection spread so fast the hospital couldn't keep up with it. They started with amputating his foot but it kept one step ahead ... finally they took the leg at the highest point possible. He was on life support and the doctors said it was time to disconnect, that he was gone.
Somehow at the eleventh hour, he rallied, and survived.
He uses a prosthetic leg now but the fit is difficult because of the height of the amputation.
There is vibrio (flesh-eating) in the area. The man who died there (2001?) had both vibrio and staph ...
To me it is just not worth it. He was a healthy teenager, my friend's son.