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[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go to doctor stat. You really really don't want this puncture wound to go septic and develop gangrene. Easily done when pruning roses. Happened to me once and I had to have the classic penicillin injection in my butt - with what felt like a sharpened hosepipe. Could not sit down for a week. Don't recommend.
PS I now wear gloves to do the garden - strong recommend for this practice going forward.

[โ€“] just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Just in the last few months I've read two stories about horrific infections from browsing around in soil gloveless - first the worm in the woman's brain from foraging, then the recently published report of the Sydney woman who got blackleg disease from gardening soil - a bacteria normally found in livestock which was eating her bowels up and nearly killed her last year but for a new mode of treatment.

I don't care what people say about getting a bit o' dirt in your bowels, I'd rather not have the other stuff as well thanks.