kinda scary, slightly off topic

[deadastronaut]

MRSA from a amp....wtf.  hope you get better soon dude.

[mac]

Hope you are better now.

MRSA from a amp....wtf.  hope you get better soon dude.

Solid State amp, most likely

mac

[duck_arse]

but,  i feel MUCH better NOW!!

I can't stop looking at John Astins teeth, now. thanks, jimi. also, get well soon.

[R.G.]

Best wishes for a full recovery. That is really scary.

It's not just a soldering issue, nor just a barn-find or storage-unit issue. MRSA - methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus - is found everywhere, even commonly on human skin. See https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/understanding-mrsa#1

I found it scary to think that it's possible to get an active MRSA infection from any skin break if the puncturing object simply carries the bug into the cut from the outside of my skin. I saw a news article recently noting that a golfer was losing a leg to MRSA after bumping into a cactus plant that stuck into his leg. Not exactly a dust-covered dirty object.

The older I get, the more I see the wisdom in rapid washing and disinfection of any skin break. Purell is our friend. So is betadine.

[J0K3RX]

It's kinda doubtful that you picked up MRSA bacteria from the guts of an old amplifier. Nomally it won't survive outside of the body for more than a month. The bacteria was probably already on your hands or clothes or something else that you were in contact with. When you nicked your finger on the solder joint you gave it a backstage pass to your blood stream. 

Be glad you didn't pick up Necrotizing Fasciitis or more commonly referred to as the Flesh-Eating Disease!!!    No fun Rockin with a bloody rotting stump! 

[pinkjimiphoton]

thanks dan,
man, that sucks!!
the hand seems to be clearing up, belly and chest too, but the one on my knee seems if anything to be getting worse.
if its not better tomorrow, i gotta go back to the hospital to be evaluated for iv antibiotics.

i gotta gig tonite. should be interesting. i've already got to the point i have some facility as a three finger guitarist iol...
i just want this shit done.

i totally feel for ya on the belly and antibiotics.  get better soon brother!!! <3

[anotherjim]

I've never seen one, but there's definitely some kind of biting bug that lurks in old electrical equipment. I very often get a single insect bite near a knuckle after reaching into something that hasn't been opened for a while. Bite mark & discomfort disappears after a day.
Jimi's infection is on a whole other level. Hope it gets better soon.

[pinkjimiphoton]

yeah, back when i could still see, i could see 'em sometimes.. little red specks that would move around.
tiny spiders sometimes, too.

but this one's different. i have a feeling its not gonna go as easy as hoped. its clearing, leaving a lot of nasty dead stuff behind tho. makes me suspect any little red spot i see.

every day on this side of the dirt is a good one. and its always a good day to die.

so i figure the odds be, like, 50-50 at my age. if it does not kill me, it will make me strong.


yeah,, right...
thanks for the well wishes bro

[marcelomd]

Be glad you didn't pick up Necrotizing Fasciitis or more commonly referred to as the Flesh-Eating Disease!!!    No fun Rockin with a bloody rotting stump! 

Necrotizing Fasciitis

Metal band name!

[pinkjimiphoton]

well, knock on wood, so far have dodged most of the necrotizing shit. it DID kill a lot of tissue on the finger tho

today, its mostly healed now, but i had to debride it, several layers worth last nite.
most of the area thats still red is where its healed back shut again, a lot of the skin will end up peeling off like bad sunburn.
its pretty nasty.

i used kinesio tape to keep the bandage on and clean, and it gives a subtle "squish" that helps it drain. that definitely helped.
i can bend it today, so i will be gigging tonite.

the show must go on, n all that. 5 more days of antibiotics as of today, both oral and topical.

i agree joker, probably not from the amp, probably already on the skin, tho the only variable changed in my environment, really, was the unit. i've been working in the same place with the same crap for years now. but it could have been on my skin, on the unit, random floozy or band-aid,  pretty much anywhere. staph can live for a while. they can encapsulate, and survive in arid and harsh conditions

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC415010/

hey, beavis! i got me some pink finger!!

quick, scroll by, don't even look!!











it looks, umm.... "moist"er cuzz i pulled off the bandage to re-dress it. it looks much better after a couple minutes exposure to air.

gonna end up losing a good bit of skin most of the way to the knuckle tho.  hopefully it will heal over time.

anyways,. enough grossing out everyone for today! sorry!

[PRR]

quick, scroll by, don't even look!!

Since I know you will post more gross pix, you should know this trick.

Hack the PostImg code so instead of a thumbnail (!) image (IMG tags) it shows a text warning.

Code Select Expand

change:
[url=https://postimg.cc/tZzDvttg][img]https://i.postimg.cc/tZzDvttg/pinkfinger.png[/img][/url]
to:
[url=https://postimg.cc/tZzDvttg]Gross picture! Don't click![/url]

Then you get:

Gross picture! Don't click!

[pinkjimiphoton]

thanks for the tip, paul!


now... WASH YOUR HANDS!!!

and don't forget to floss your mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmcYTShN4Fk

in a little white box that i can sell up town...

[stonerbox]

Wait what?? People don't wash their hands after working with pedals and the chems that comes with it? Maybe we are just super obsessed with washing our hands here in Sweden but I would never dream of eating food or touching stuff around the house with traces of solder, old board gunk or stuff like that on my hands. God only knows what cheap ass resistors from Asia has been dipped in / or lack of washing at the minimum wage factories.

I hope your finger have a swift recovery, Jimi.

[pinkjimiphoton]

lol... here i'm often multitasking. on the phone with peeps doing support, or building/repairing something, burning something one way or another, etc... not washing my hands was indeed stupid as hell. sometimes ya get so damn busy ya forget stupidly simple, yet important stuff...

ya only have to really worry if ya cut yourself i guess. regardless, keepin hand sanitizer handy.

+1 on who knows what that stuff gets on it!!

thanks for the well wishes. hopefully by next week it will be much better.