When I was 15, I cut my knee on a piece of farm equipment. We were working so fast and hard, I didn't notice it until I started to walk away and my shoe was full of blood. They wrapped a brown paper bag and baleing twine around it and on the way home after work, I stopped at the Doctors and got some stitches.
It was sore but OK, for 5 days, but woke up the sixth with it grotesquely swollen and painful. Doc cut it open to relieve the pressure and put me in the hospital for 10 days. The said I had blood poisoning and a staph infection. I guess the wound being at the extremities rather than a traumatic hole in the abdomen, was in my favor.
I know they weren't happy that I can't take penicillin, and they kept me in isolation for the first 5 days.
Wouldn't recommend it for a diet plan, though.
