For those of you who don't know there's a show on Spike called 1000 ways to die. It details gruesome and unusual ways real people have actually died. It's like the Darwin awards but not always stupid, just odd or original. They are, however, real stories reenacted with names changed and so on.
Last night I watched this show with Erich for the first time. It was intriguing and somewhat funny (a guy gets pulled over with a hooker, and tried to hide pepper spray - get this - up his ass, and it went off AND KILLED HIM! Wow). One story among these was so freaking scary I'm literally shocked.
They introduce a showgirl (I forget the name, but since it was changed to protect the innocent in the first place, I doubt it matters) who according to the show "works all night, and sleeps all day, with little time for mundane tasks like going to the grocery store." Apparently she hadn't changed the blade on her razor and cut herself shaving. Fairly common.
Anywho, where it gets grizzly is apparently her razor was so old it had streptococcus bacteria. For those of you who don't know, here's some wiki for you: "In addition to streptococcal pharyngitis (or strep throat), certain Streptococcus species are responsible for many cases of meningitis, bacterial pneumonia, endocarditis, erysipelas and necrotizing fasciitis (the 'flesh-eating' bacterial infections)." Guess which one she got!
Flesh-eating disease. She got flesh-eating disease on her FACE! She touched her face at some point and it got into a pimple, and the next morning half her face was all "flesh-eaten" and Spike showed it in the reenactment and it was fucking scary. She went to the hospital, and within like a day her face was basically gone and she died.
This is super scary to me for two reasons, A) I wait way too long to go grocery shopping. I always say I'm going to go, then don't until my dinner options are mustard and olives. B) I wait way too long to change the blade on my razor too. By the time I change my razor blade I could more effectively shave with a butter knife.
The first thing I did this morning was change my razor blade. I'm officially terrified of shaving, and I'll probably never pop a pimple ever again. Excuse me while I go save up my money for laser hair removal.
You know, you could always just sanitize your razor with a little alcohol if you have to go an extra week on an old one. :) No Necrotizing Faciitis for you!
ReplyDeleteThis actually happened to me this year. My razor was not old or rusty though, tiny little nick on the skin and the bacteria entered and ripped through me. I almost died. Had to have 2 emergency surgeries and now have a very sizeable scar on my thigh. This was the very first thing i thought of when they told me I had necrotizing fasciitis, was this episode of 1000 ways to die, because I remembered seeing it and being horrified. never in a million years thought it would happen to me.
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