A Texas man was hospitalized for more than a year after pulling out an ingrown hair.
The tribulations of Steven Spinale, a father in his 30s, were triggered by his attempt to remove an ingrown hair from his groin area in 2022, according to the Daily Mail.
Following the harmless operation on his own body, the man in his thirties contracted septicemia, a blood infection.
“All the doctors could figure out was that he had internal bleeding somewhere. We didn’t know this would be the least of our worries,” wrote his sister Michelle in GoFundMe, who was raising money to cover her brother’s medical expenses.
She has also chronicled her brother’s near-death experience in TikTok, since he was hospitalized in late 2022.
His condition reportedly declined rapidly until he collapsed and was placed on life support. The sepsis was so bad that doctors to treat him put him in an artificial coma for three weeks, his sister reported in TikTok.
He had to undergo open heart surgery, spend two weeks in a rotating bed to make his breathing easier, and constantly have fluids drained from his lungs.
After more than a year of complications, Steven Spinale “miraculously” recovered from his infection in early March, beating the 4% odds doctors reportedly gave him.
“We never gave up hope when others did,” her sister said in TikTok this week.
