A Briton lost his buttocks after meeting a flesh-eating bacterium (3 photos)

It all started when 55-year-old Simon English, a former firefighter, woke up with symptoms of a classic cold.





His wife Kay worked at a school and was constantly catching some kind of viral infection. So they were not surprised by Simon's condition and decided that it would be good for him to spend the day in bed.

Only the temperature was accompanied by a fever, cough and fatigue. But that was not the end of it.

When Simon's buttocks turned purple, the skin started peeling off and he almost went into a coma, he decided to rush to the hospital. He says he spent the next two weeks in a semi-conscious state.



"They gave me a lot of morphine, I was hallucinating a lot. And then when I came to after two weeks, the doctor told me I had a condition called necrotizing fasciitis."

Doctors diagnosed him with necrotizing fasciitis, also known as "flesh-eating disease," a rare and life-threatening infection that lives in a wound. The bacteria spread quickly throughout the victim's body.

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Symptoms include small red lumps or bumps on the skin, rapidly spreading bruises, sweating, chills, fever and nausea.

For almost three months, doctors fought for the man's life and buttocks, but only part of the flesh was saved. Simon was given a colostomy bag, in which one end of the colon is brought out through an opening in the abdominal cavity.

"I look like a shark bit my butt off," he told reporters.

The cause of the infection was never determined - only a small wound was found, similar to a cut or a bite, which he could have received anywhere. The man faces a long road to recovery.