MRSA bug ate my thigh

Link: Irvine Times | News | MRSA bug ate my thigh.

AN Irvine man who contracted MRSA said he was left in agony for six weeks by doctors - wondering if his leg would have to be cut off. Robert Reid, 56, eventually had to have a large chunk of his thigh removed in an operation to stop the superbug. He said: “I’ve never felt pain like that in my life. It’s hard not to be bitter.” The Broomlands grandfather of four claimed he contracted MRSA during a straightforward absece operation at Crosshill Hospital. And he said a run of medical mistakes meant he had to go back four times over two years before the damaging disease was stopped. Only when most of his leg was ravaged with holes, he said, did doctors admit that his antibiotics weren’t working.