Indeed, hurray for you Bobert!

Don't know what happened to my last post - maybe I forgot to hit submit and wandered off and then refreshed.

Anyways, it was thread drift related to roadkill.

Hubby and I used to make and sell drums. We collected hides from taxadermists and local hunting clubs, soaked them in big trash barrels with a lye solution made from wood ashes and water, then scraped and dehaired them. Both of us nearly lost fingers from infections incurred doing that work.

The good doctors knew what to do about the cellulitus (cellulitis?) but none of them were accustomed to dealing with the germs we acquired. We were infectious novelties that all the medical residents got brought into see on the several occasions over the course of several years that we showed up in the ER.

(Not sorry I lived that life, but wouldn't do it again.)