Man Catches Flesh-Eating Infection During Water Fight With His Kids...What Happens Next Is Heartbreaking

Posted by Samuel on Mon 23rd Apr, 2018 - tori.ng

A man who caught a flesh-eating infection during a water fight with his kids, has suffered a really heartbreaking fate.

Philip Pike

A man was close to dying after he picked up a flesh-eating bug after having a water fight with his kids in the garden.

Philip Pike, 59, caught the serious bacterial infection necrotizing fasciitis, after playing with his two children and falling into a rose bush in July last year.

Around one or two cases in five is fatal.

He got some minor scratches but thought nothing of it but soon became seriously ill.

He was in a coma for two weeks, lost parts of his fingers, toes and buttocks and had to learn to walk again – and had a pacemaker fitted.

Despite making progress in his recovery, Philip who lives in Cambridgeshire, still needs medication and faces having more amputations on his fingers.

Docs put Philip into an induced coma so they could treat him

The infection didn’t initially make itself apparent but developed at an alarming rate just two days later.

Philip told Cambridge News: “I thought nothing of it. Two days later I was in bed and I was violently sick. That went on for hours.

“I was panicking because I couldn’t breathe.”

His wife called for an ambulance and he was put on oxygen and taken to Addenbrooke’s hospital where he was put into an induced coma.

Doctors fought to save his life and he underwent several operations and had to take strong antibiotics.

He said: “It’s eating you from the inside out. It’s horrible. People lose legs and arms.

“I’ve been brought back to life. I’d died I don’t know how many times. It was scary, not for me but for my wife. She had to go through so much.”

After he was brought out of the coma he had to learn to simple movements like sit up, stand and move into chairs all over again with the help of a therapist.

Philip and his wife, who have raised foster children for ten years, said that his kids initially didn’t want to see him as they were afraid of the all the tubes and pipes he had to use.

Slowly the family is getting used to the new situation with Philip and he is making a steady recovery.

He said that he had now been able to take a walk outside on his own for the first time since coming home.

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Source: The Sun UK