Posted on 07/25/2023 4:27:26 PM PDT by Twotone
A single flea bite has cost a Texas man both of his arms and part of his feet, his family said.
Michael Kohlhof was rushed to a San Antonio emergency room last month after losing feeling in his toes and suffering from what his family initially believed to be severe flu symptoms, his mother wrote in a GoFundMe.
Soon after, the 35-year-old man went into septic shock and was rushed into the ICU.
Within 24 hours, Kohlhof was put on a ventilator, dialysis, antibiotics, vasopressors and numerous IV medications to keep him alive as his organs began rapidly failing.
“By the end of June 20, I was told to call immediate family to come from all parts of the country to say their goodbyes,” mom J’Leene Hardaway wrote.
Kohlhof’s brother Greg told KENS5 that his sibling “almost died once or twice.
“They were worried about him being brain dead,” Greg said.
It took another 11 days of intense medical assistance, but Kohlhof miraculously pulled through and was taken off the ventilator and sedation on July 1 — but not without severe physical consequences.
According to Hardaway, Kohlhof’s hands and feet developed dry gangrene as a result of the vasopressor treatment — one of the many medications that saved his life.
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Yeah. No.
Now that’s a big flea.
Hear that liberals? Stay where you are. You don’t want to get bit bY a flea in Texas
That open Southern Border is bringing in some awful flees.
A very effective treatment for sepsis is a vitamin C drip. I notice that was not tried.
Added 20 million dogs to the US population in 2 years - it makes sense we see stories like this.
If that was my brother or son, whatever end goal it is that he wants, I will support him in that goal.
His body is not all there, but apparently, his mind still is.
“Texas man loses both arms, part of his feet after a single flea bite”
Where I live in Texas, REAL MEN don’t take no crap from a FLEA. Oh, please.
Holy crap!
OMG I just saw the article and photos. Someone brought him a stuffed animal of a dog???? After he nearly died and lost limbs due to flea bites??
Someone is not making the connections here. The mental illness associated with dog worship in our culture has gotten completely out of control.
Fleas Navidad, Fleas Navidad...
The cops are doing their best...
Must have been a Democrat flea.
> The cause of Kohlof’s sepsis and quick decline was pinpointed to typhus, which stemmed from a single bite from a flea.
Took the article quite a while to get to that.
I’m sure the treatment he received caused more harm than the flea.
Possible. Sepsis is a terrible thing, and it seems it was aggravated by reduced circulation in the limbs due to vaso drugs (used to increase blood pressure).
My brother in law just passed, as a consequence of radiation treatment for aggressive cancer. Reduced circulation as a side effect led to multiple infections, until there came a very bad one.
Sounds more like the side effects of a covid “vaccine”...
“I’m sure the treatment he received caused more harm than the flea.”
That’s my suspicion.
Its because it works. And its cheap.
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