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Ms Mitchell's Articles In Health & Medicine
March 17, 2006 by Ms Mitchell
My oldest son is a 19yo private in the US Marine Corps. He has a young wife and a new baby. He was cleaning his weapon and nicked his finger. He was a boy scout; he got his first aid merit badge. So he washed it, slapped on a Band-Aid, and went on about his regularly scheduled day. Now he is facing at least a month in the hospital as the doctors whittle away necrotic tissue. He has developed pneumonia.He will require a skin graft if he does not lose his finger entirely. He has a particularly ...