The flesh-eating manifestation happens when the patient has some sort of physical (external) trauma -- like a cut or whacking your arm and getting a bruise, etc. -- and so the bacteria rush to that spot and chow down.

::faints dead away::

Wait, so it means that when you have strep A and get a bruise -- it can eat your flesh?

I think this disease taps into the same panic centres that leprosy does, and freaked me out as a kid. Your poor boss. And his entire family...

Wow, Teppy. That poor man. All my sensors are on FREAK OUT FREAK OUT FREAK OUT, right now.

Wow, Teppy. How scary and horrifying. Healthma to him.

Oh, crap, burn-type treatments are--well, a day when you only scream yourself hoarse is a good day. Hopefully it's just a matter of protecting the arm, not cleaning hte arm.

Yikes, that's scary stuff.

Oh, crap, burn-type treatments are--well, a day when you only scream yourself hoarse is a good day. Hopefully it's just a matter of protecting the arm, not cleaning hte arm.

Well, we didn't get all the details, but when they removed the skin from his arm, they did it via surgery, rather than the scrubby-type debridement. The dressings on it are moist, and intended to protect the arm as well as keep it clean and infection-free, so that there don't have to be any further skin-removing surgeries or scrubby debridement.

Damn, Teppy, that really is the stuff nightmares are made of, isn't it?

rather than the scrubby-type debridement.

My whole body just sucked itself into one giant cringe.

bicyclops stole Cranberry's tag

Didn't mean to. Used the "Search entire thread for this text" to see if anyone else was using it. Apparently the search function ignores text in tags.

Reverting to a previous tag.

Happy Birthday, Lysana!

Happy Belated Birthday, Laura!

Teppy, that is so freaky scary about your boss. I truly hope he's going to be ok.