Grotesque | Sarah Gibbs

My brother Adam scraped his leg on a workout box while at wrestling practice. A small piece of wood inbedded itself into his shin. It was just a little scratch but a month later he showed my parents and it was all red and infected. He immediately was taken to the emergency room for antibiotics, but it never got any better.

Finally the doctors decided to operated and cut out a huge chuck of green tinged pussy flesh from his leg. The gangrene was almost to his knee. The worst part is the doctor didn't stitch it up because it needed to heal from the inside out. Instead every morning and night my parents had to jam gauze down into the two inch long, but inch wide gaping bloody hole. It was so deep that if you stuck a q-tip down the hole, it sunk two inches. My brother is a tough guy, but he could barely handle this.

Every day you could see the hole filling in a little bit more, until finally it was better, but to this day his is missing a chuck of flesh so if you touch his shin you can feel his bone. It is the sickest thing I have ever felt or seen.