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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“Can’t hurt. Might help.
I think people are still wearing masks because of that line of thinking.”
Agree, it cannot hurt. However there is considerable harm from masks and zero benefit.
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