When playing sports, especially contact sports, it’s pretty normal for kids to get a few scrapes and bruises during practices and games, which is why one California freshman wasn’t too concerned when he got a tiny cut on his finger during football practice.
The freshman boy had accidentally nicked his finger on a helmet during practice, but it was so small and barely hurt, so he brushed it off. However, a few hours later, mom Camil Flores could tell something was wrong with her son when he felt sick and started vomiting.
Flores made her son rest that night, however, she brought him to an urgent care clinic the next morning when he wasn’t any better and his finger was severely swollen. “His finger was ten times the size of his other fingers,” she said. When doctors took one look at his finger they told mom to go straight to the emergency room, where doctors rushed him into surgery.
“When the surgeon came in, she could not believe how severe his finger was,” Flores said. “It was discolored, he couldn’t feel it, the swelling increased and the antibiotics were just not working.”
That small nick on his finger was rapidly deteriorated and doctors discovered the teenager was suffering from necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bacteria that can lead to amputation and death. “This happened just from a nick, from a helmet, from playing football,” Flores wrote on Facebook.
Luckily, doctors were able to save the boy’s hand during surgery, but there is still a lot of damage and he may never regain mobility to his dominant hand. “It makes me feel really helpless that I can’t do anything for my son, and I can’t take this away from him,” Flores said.
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