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I knew a guy who lost a foot after getting a fibreglass splinter in it which caused an infection. And he wasn’t even working with fibreglass, one of his neighbours was, he was just picking up his mail while wearing only socks.
Moral of the story: don’t fuck around with fibreglass.
How did an infection from a small wound lead to an infection serious enough to require amputation? Maybe I’m being naive but I can only imagine you have to ignore it quite badly for that to happen…
Rare flesh eating bacteria. There was even talk of chopping off his whole leg at some point and there were multiple operations to get it all out. In the end he was quite happy to only lose his foot.
The underlying problem was that the fibers had entered his body and were mobile, so almost impossible to remove, even in multiple operations. Any secondary problems they caused, such as those bacteria, kept getting worse.
So no, the fibers themselves were definitely a large part of the problem.
I knew a guy who lost a foot after getting a fibreglass splinter in it which caused an infection. And he wasn’t even working with fibreglass, one of his neighbours was, he was just picking up his mail while wearing only socks.
Moral of the story: don’t fuck around with fibreglass.
How did an infection from a small wound lead to an infection serious enough to require amputation? Maybe I’m being naive but I can only imagine you have to ignore it quite badly for that to happen…
Rare flesh eating bacteria. There was even talk of chopping off his whole leg at some point and there were multiple operations to get it all out. In the end he was quite happy to only lose his foot.
Sure, but that has nothing to do with the insulation. Any wound could have caused that.
It’s like saying “don’t go to the movies cause my cousin got pregnant after going on a date!”
The underlying problem was that the fibers had entered his body and were mobile, so almost impossible to remove, even in multiple operations. Any secondary problems they caused, such as those bacteria, kept getting worse.
So no, the fibers themselves were definitely a large part of the problem.