Gym-goer has arm amputated after bicep curl injury left him battling flesh eating bug

dailystar.co.uk:

shredded gym-goer was forced to have his forearm amputated after a botched bicep curl caused a tear in his arm and led to him developing a flesh-eating bug.While lifting a 50kg weight, Gabriel McKenna-Lieschke let out a gut-wrenching scream as his bicep "tore clean off his elbow".After undergoing surgery to reattach the muscle, things got worse for the 29-year-old, who claims his arm swelled up to "three times the thickness" and turned "bright red".The civil engineering student was rushed back into hospital and was soon fighting for his life in an induced coma, as his family were told to prepare for the worst.Tragically 'heavily-sedated' Gabriel then woke up to be told he had lost his lower left arm due to the deadly flesh-eating bug necrotising fasciitis.Gabriel, from Adelaide, Australia, said that once the muscle tore he went into panic mode.He explained: "I basically jumped in the car, drove about 50 metres screaming in pain.

I called a friend to come pick me up."We called the hospital and they told me having a bicep attached was an elective surgery.

Two days later, I got [managed to get] a surgeon."I don't have any recollection of this point, but I do know this is what happened.

I had the surgery to reattach it and I wasn't given any antibiotics, not intravenously or orally."There's a question about where the necrotising fasciitis actually came from."Nothing's been settled with it yet but basically three days after the surgery, I was sitting around and my arm had swelled up to two or three times the thickness and was bright red."I think I acquired the necrotising fasciitis in the hospital."My dad was calling my friends and family because they'd told him they thought I was going to die, then it was a big surprise to.