Bryan Ferry
288 posts
In 2011, Mitchell Carey ate a corned beef sandwich at lunchtime. Twenty-five minutes later he was on the floor.
He sweated profusely, stripped off his clothes, and told the people around him his pain was ten out of ten.He was rushed to hospital.
Doctors treated him, stabilised him, and sent him home the same day. A serious case of food poisoning, they figured. Rest, medication, fluids. He would be fine. He was not fine.
The following day he collapsed again at home and was taken back to hospital, where he died on August 18 from multiple organ failure.
His body had been quietly destroying itself from the inside since that first bite.
What was k*lling him was something almost no one on earth had ever encountered. Clostridium perfringens Type A had only been recorded seven times in the world, according to an expert who testified at the inquest.
Not a rare condition. Not an unusual condition. A condition so obscure it barely existed in medical literature.
His doctors had almost no framework for recognising it, no established protocol for treating it, and very little understanding of how fast it could move.
It moved fast. From sandwich to d*ad in two days. His organs failed one by one while his family watched and doctors struggled to understand what they were even looking at.
By the time the picture became clear, there was nothing left to save.
His d*ath had initially been attributed to stepping on a sea urchin during a recent holiday in Greece, which tells you everything about how invisible and bewildering Clostridium perfringens Type A is.
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Can someone draw the weird dude im seeing with this
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@Keir_Starmer This is the truth, austerity has cost us immensely, people want an easy way out, you won’t get a one, you are stuck with the choices you have made and no amount of blaming the minorities will solve the damage the conservative government has caused to this country
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We all know you’re going to lose the next election anyway, why are you still holding on? The anti-immigration crowd are baying for blood, you pretend to approve of the idea of deporting immigrants rather than telling people the truth, you can’t… and you will never be able to. The European council will not allow you to deport more, and this has always been the case. Why pretend that it’s changed after brexit? People look for an easy way out rather than facing the fact that a Tory government has caused them pain that they will have to endure for another 10 years, they want an easy answer to the cost of living and the suffering they have to live through, but the truth is, they voted conservative for how ever many years and we all have to pay
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National renewal is the patriotic call of our age.
This government will deliver it.
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World of Engineering Quiz:
Can you solve 6÷2(1+2)=?
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Just got back home after a trip for some wine and cheese tasting. Food and drinks were great, but the company was particularly amazing.
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Just finished streaming KinitoPET and got this steam notification
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Strap in folks: reasons why you should sign this petition, a Batshit thread 🧵
Fairness-in-Religions-in-School@secularschools
@Zoekuvener @dwyer_leo @batshit_auspol pls share Parliamentary ePetition - Run optional Scripture and Ethics Lessons outside class time in NSW Public Schools parliament.nsw.gov.au/la/Pages/ePeti…
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@Test1cl3 @oompaville Call me Dwayne the way she rocking on my Johnson
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