Randy's infection

Randy King gets a fishing surprise. Last October, I went up to Alaska to go fishing. The silver Run was having a great time. And as you're fishing salmon, they tend to have big, sharp teeth as they're spawning and they'll cut you a little bit. And I wasn't thinking anything of it. You put Neosporin on your cuts at night and go to bed. Did that and went deer hunting one day. And then on the way, the truck ride back home from the deer hunt, my wrist started hurting a little bit. And so I took off one of the Band-Aids on my thumb and my thumb had turned purple. Turns out, as I end up calling the emergency room and getting with the only doctor on the island I was on, I met with him a couple hours later. As soon as his clinic opened, I'd contracted something called Fish Handler's Disease, which is a bacterial infection that comes from fish getting in through cuts in the skin. And this happened because I was sticking my hands into that nasty salmon spawning water with little nicks and cuts on it. And I managed to get an infection down into the bone on my left thumb. Mind you, my left thumb is my second favorite thumb. I was in danger of losing it. I had to be on antibiotics when I got home for three months. It is now nine months later and my thumb is still sore from this. So moral of the story is, is you might think that you are invincible. You might think you don't need to gut with gloves on or do any of those sort of things. But I am walking evidence that if you gut enough animals, you stick your hands in enough nasty places with cuts on them, you will eventually get an infection. Speaker1: So be safe. Not sorry.