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  • Thornburywitch
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    1 year ago

    Go to doctor stat. You really really don’t want this puncture wound to go septic and develop gangrene. Easily done when pruning roses. Happened to me once and I had to have the classic penicillin injection in my butt - with what felt like a sharpened hosepipe. Could not sit down for a week. Don’t recommend.
    PS I now wear gloves to do the garden - strong recommend for this practice going forward.

    • just_kitten
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      1 year ago

      Just in the last few months I’ve read two stories about horrific infections from browsing around in soil gloveless - first the worm in the woman’s brain from foraging, then the recently published report of the Sydney woman who got blackleg disease from gardening soil - a bacteria normally found in livestock which was eating her bowels up and nearly killed her last year but for a new mode of treatment.

      I don’t care what people say about getting a bit o’ dirt in your bowels, I’d rather not have the other stuff as well thanks.