About 3 years ago, I waded out in waist deep water to replace a board on the boat dock, and scraped my ankle on a tree root.....it barely bled, so I didn't think too much of it.....that night, my leg got really red, and began throbbing bad.....I made it thru the night on Tylenol, and went to my doctor the next morning.....he explained that even the slightest break in the skin can allow some very bad bacteria from lake water to enter the bloodstream.....he put me on 7 days of Cipro and Bactrin, and a heating pad to draw out the infection.....I recovered just fine.
About 3 weeks ago, I did nearly the same thing on my fish pond here by my house.....this time, however, it was on my ankle.....I've gone thru 2 visits to the ER to receive antibiotics by IV, along with 2 VERY high-powered and expensive antibiotic prescriptions, and my ankle is still not 100% healed.
Doc said it developed into cellulitis, which he said was a real biatch to heal.
Any of you guys ever had an accident like this???