I got mersa (spelling). Had a cut. Gardened in my yard.
Started out as a small black spot. Finally spread between two fingers and wasn’t stopping.
Wow, that's terrible. I never heard of getting it from a garden.
People usually get it from hospitals. I hate when hospital workers wear their scrubs around.
How did they stop it.
My cousin had a bad case - slipped on a hike & scraped his shin on some rocks. He had medical care/antibiotics within a couple of days of the scrape when it became very painful & started doing weird things. He was away from home (out of state) & went to his doc as soon as he got home (about a week later). He was referred same day to a specialist/surgeon who had him in the OR either that day or the next. The surgery cleaned out his leg down to the shin bone - he’d been told if it was in the bone, the leg would be removed. Due to a fairly extensive surgical site, he had weeks of care from a “wound specialist” (the kind that treats horrific war wounds), with vacuum treatment, etc. He was very fortunate that all he’s got left after this experience is a very deep scar along his shin bone.