That wasnt a worm man, that was a MRSA staph infection. I know, I've had one before (I still have a huge scar on the right side of my stomach to prove it) and they hurt like a motherf*&^r!! I got mine from working in a hospital, where they believe the disease actually started.I still get them from time to time (it's very hard to get rid of,a really tough ultra bastard germ), but now that I know what to look for as far as symptoms go, I can get rid of it in a hurry. Ive been on steroids for it, all sorts of junk, and it's still (4 years later) not entirely out of my system.
Its did look like a worm, but its just a gigantic zit. It has a semi hard center, and it really did look like a worm, but it wasnt. Actually, that guy was a complete dumbass for doing that, especially when itwas on his face like that. he could have been killed, MRSA isnt anything you wan to mess around with! I had a family friend who got one on his spinal cord that left him in the hospital for 8 months!!
From wikipedia;
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (
MRSA) are isolates of the
bacterium Staphylococcus aureus that have acquired genes encoding
antibiotic resistance to all
penicillins, including
methicillin and other narrow-spectrum
β-lactamase-resistant penicillin
antibiotics.
[1] The first MRSA was discovered in the
UK in 1961, but MRSA are now widespread in the hospital setting. MRSA is commonly termed a
superbug.
MRSA may also be known as
oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) and
multiple-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, while non-methicillin resistant strains of
S. aureus are sometimes called
methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) if an explicit distinction must be made.
Although MRSA has traditionally been seen as a hospital-associated infection, community-acquired MRSA strains have appeared in recent years, notably in the
U.S. and
Australia.
[2] The abbreviations
CA-MRSA (community-associated MRSA) and
HA-MRSA (hospital-associated MRSA) are now commonly seen in medical literature.
heres a CDC link on it too.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_mrsa_spotlight_2006.html MIt was gross, but my wife can "one-up" it.
She had a Patient last year that had some form of necrosis, a flesh eating disease.
It had attacked his neck, and ate away all the flesh around his throat and windpipe.
theres only really one way to stop this disease, know what it is? MAGGOTS!! Yep,
this guy had to have maggots laced aaaaaaaaall the way around his enflamed area,
to eat away at the dead flesh until nothing dead was left. she said it was massively
gross, but nowhere near as gross as the guy who threw up 2 liters of blood onto her.
I dunno, as gross as that worm thing was, I had to hold pressure on some old black
guys femoral artery after he'd been shot three times. bad enough he was a crusty old
crackhead, but then to have his johnson laying on top of my hand the whole way to the
hospital......... At least I had gloves on......