His hand hadn’t swelled because he iced the bite wound, so doctors told him not to worry about it and sent him home.
I find that hard to believe.
I find that hard to believe.
Believe it. I went to a VA hospital with a severely infected big toe made more serious by diabetes. I was given oral antibiotics and sent home. The next day the infection had entered my foot. I went to another hospital where they amputated my toe the next day, as a doc put it, "to save the leg."