☀️🔥 WARNING : To anyone in any water during the heat, keep an eye on cuts, sores, etc. I’d never worried about this (luckily), and have heard horror stories, but it never hit home. This is my story that went from normal, fun fishing to near hospital, possible amputation in a quick 72 hours. 👇 ⚠️ What caused it : Walking and standing in hot, mostly stagnant water with open wounds/blisters. ⚠️ What it was: A bacterial infection most likely Norcardia. I was lucky, 24 hours later I’d have been in the hospital and who knows where. 10 days of antibiotics and steroids helped tremendously (and tetanus shot updated). The sharpie lines were to make sure it didn’t spread any farther. Had it, things would be very different. ORIGINAL POST ⬇️ Hopefully I’ve caught mine in time. These photos aren’t pretty - feet aren’t pretty ever 😂 - but we believe all of my open wounds/cuts/blisters in the Bahamas all combined with something not nice … most like HOT and stagnant water - in the secret tarpon ponds we discovered, or maybe the beaches, had led to this. I thought originally it was a sprained ankle, or maybe a broken bone from 7 straight days of abuse from 12-15miles/day barefooted on mostly beaches, but also shells, rocks, corals, etc. But, after one day back it felt like my foot/ankle/shin was on literal fire and someone was beating it with an aluminum bat. I’m stupid in many, many ways so just tried to push through it, ice, rest, etc. Fast forward to un-walkable, swollen to a full cankle, skin turning colors, and time to take it serious … here we are. Antibiotics and steroids rolling now. To all of my fishing friends be VERY aware this summer, as again, I’ve heard and seen stories over the decades of infections from different scenarios (usually summer), but this one hit close to home — literally 🙃 #myfirstcankle #trappedfishandfunknasty #fishing #fish #warning #caution #fail #beach #pond #infection #dr #doctor #bacteria #wading #feet #shoes #ouch #nofun #hike #hiking #summer #heat #outdoors #ocean #bacteria #doctor #dr #md #foot #nofun