I went back again and the surgery was full. I had
to stand and sweat was dripping off me. This time he prescribed
antibiotics. After two days I rang my doctor as I could hardly
walk and he booked me into the hospital the same day. I was taken
to the operating theatre to have what they thought was an abscess
drained.
My wife received a phone call at work to say that I was in intensive
care. I had necrotising fasciitis. I had a large area of flesh
removed and was on morphine. I had been given a colostomy system
and had a catheter and loads of tubes everywhere. They had to keep
taking me back to theatre to cut off a little more dead flesh.
I was in Dewsbury hospital for 7 weeks and was transferred to Pinderfields
in Wakefield for a skin graft. This didn’t take.
I was in and out of hospital quite a lot. The wound healed up
but burst open again and again. The colostomy was reversed, but
I still have infections, which break open in the area of the wound.
The hospital is baffled.
5 years on – I’m still alive. I was lucky.
Bart
