MAGGOTS

Had a rather interesting day at work today. One of the dogs had 2 maggot wounds. Yes that's right, you didn't see wrongly, it's a 2 that I typed just now. One at the anus and another at the fore leg. It's really gross and disgusting especially the one at the anus. Basically, the wound is just one giant hole, as if someone stabbed it with a huge cylinder or something. And it's bloody. Oh and it smells of rotting meat cause apparently some of his flesh is rotting.

We didn't realize that it's a maggot wound at first till we got our sergeant to check. We were highly grossed out after that. Imagine having a really really deep wound and MAGGOTS CRAWLING ALL AROUND IN IT. *Ouch* Anyway, we were told to observe and learn how to treat a maggot wound so that we don't need to keep relying on our superiors in the future.

Step 1 - Mix Hydrogen Peroxide with some weird powder and use a syringe (no not the ones with needles) and squirt the mixture into the wound. Make sure you squirt LOTS of it. Apparently maggots hate this stuff and would hence crawl out from the wound.

Step 2 - This step is the most disgusting part of all. Take a pincer and start pulling out the maggots. It's quite tough at the beginning cause it's hard to differentiate maggots and the poor dog's flesh. Even though it's gross, pulling maggots out turned out to be quite fun after you get past the oh-my-gosh-this-is-so-gross stage.

Step 3 - Repeat step 1 and 2 since his wound would be so bloody by now that you can't see nuts in there. More if the mixture is also needed to flush out more maggots.

Step 4 - Use cotton wool to pinch and dab the wound to get more maggots out.

Step 5 onwards - I can't really remember but I think they put iodine and some other medicine to the wound.

At the end, we managed to extract close to 20 maggots! But we still need to make sure that all the maggots are extracted so we have to do the same thing tomorrow.

(The following text are highly explicit. Read at your own risk)

*I DID WARN YOU THERE'S NO TURNING BACK*

After we treated the dog, our sergeant told us that last time there was this dog that had a maggot wound in her vagina. But they could not get all the maggots out, so they had to cut it before they can extract out all the maggots.

*End of explicit material*

After the whole episode, our big boss sent in the SWAT team to deal with the situation. So armed with our trusty weapon, we infiltrated the kennels and started swatting at enemy houseflies. Haha.

Oh since I'm on the whole insect/bug topic, I dreamt that I was Spiderman last night. I was swinging around buildings with my web thingy and man the feeling was super shiok! I wish I can do that in real life.

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