Just admitted to the hospital....cut my hand on Palythoas rock

My brother got the red streaks after cutting his hand on a float trip. A short hospital stay and some good drugs and he was right as rain after. Hang in there.
 
mkart said:
Some of my rocks have little stalagmite like formations that are like little needles sticking out of the rock. I assume that's what got me. I've cut myself on a rock before but never this type of reaction.
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Most likely those darn vermatid snails, Those little buggers are sharp as razors if you hit them right or should I say wrong.
 
mkart said:
Well Friday evening I was cleaning the tank and pressed my hand into a colony of palythoas on accident. The rock beneath cut me and the Palythoas slimmed me. I washed my hands and moved on. Saturday I went about my day with some pain at the cut. By 5pm I had streaks about 5 inches up my arm. By 10pm streaks past my elbow. Looked like a bacterial infection to me so we went to the ER. Apparently that is what it most likely is, pushing IV's now and hoping I get released Sunday evening. I can't believe I am here!
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We're you scraping corraline off the back glass?
 
bradleym said:
A few years ago there was a local guy that got himself cut pretty good on the knuckles and had the same experience only worse. They were talking about amputation for a minute! Glad you are feeling better.
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He made a full recovery
 
ebacon said:
We're you scraping corraline off the back glass?
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I wish corraline....I have fought hair algae since the day I installed this tank. I say since I installed it because many of my Craigs List rocks came with a free coat of hair algae. My inexperience in the hobby told me not to worry since I would keep up on my water changes and it would just go away.
 
Might wanna try adding a lieutenant tang. I got one for my tank and now I can't keep up with it. It ate all my hair algae and will tear through 3 inch squares of nori in under a minute pretty much all day long.
 
Matt, sorry to hear the bad news and hope you make a quick recovery. It's tough to work in gloves, but this is a good reminder.

I'm surprised the folks working in the fish stores don't run into this more often as they are always in the tanks bare handed.
 
Well I made it home this afternoon. Another 3 weeks of antibiotics and I should be free and clear of this.
 
Good to hear you made it out alive!

As many times as I've read threads like this, I still haven't invested in gloves...
 
I am not sure who is worse. I have three types of gloves sitting next to my tanks, never opened them. I just opened the package 15 minutes ago to do a water change on the QT. Now to get my wife to pull out my Strawberry Limeaide colony for fragging. Darn mushrooms crept in and killed the base!
 
Lol :lmao: fresh out the hospital from a saltwater related incident, and you already have your hands back in the tank :lol:
 
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