Warning to Tourists – Forced Amputation | World

British Tom Bush was 19 when he went on his dream holiday – two full summer months with friends in the tourist paradise of Ibiza.

There were beaches and bars every day until the summer dream ended one evening at Mambo Cafe. He had a drink and felt a little sting.

“I think I put my hand on the stones and felt a little sting, nothing big. Then I went on to other bars and had a few more drinks. I went to bed at 11pm,” says Tom Bush. For the British Mirror.

“My hand was on fire”

Then it got worse.

“I woke up at 4am and my hand felt like it was on fire,” Tom says. “I panicked, my hand was all swollen and blue.”

He woke up his friends who were also panicked. They went to a nearby pharmacy as soon as it opened and said there, “You need to go to the hospital immediately.”

“At the hospital, they didn’t really know what had happened because it was so unusual. They were just trying to take extra precautions to keep as much of my hand as possible,” Tom told the Mirror.

black fingers from gangrene

This happened in July 2021. He travelled to his home in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK. There the situation escalated.

– Three fingertips were black with gangrene. They had just died. Tom says the doctors wanted to leave it as long as possible without operating.

For a few months, he says, nurses came to his home to make sure he wasn't infected.

“Then the finger fell off on its own. That’s what they wanted. I had surgery a few weeks later. In the end, I had two stumps in the first joint and a short little finger,” he says.

Black widow between two dangers

However, it is not known which spider Tom According to the mirror There are six species of venomous spiders in Spain, the most dangerous of which is the black widow. No one has been reported to have died from spider bites in Spain, according to the newspaper.

Tom Bush says he doesn't want to discourage anyone from visiting Ibiza, but stresses that you should take out good travel insurance and see a doctor as soon as you feel something is wrong.

“It’s a beautiful island and I don’t want this story to discourage anyone. First, make sure you have good travel insurance and go straight to the hospital,” he says to the mirror and continues:

“I thought about not going to the hospital,” he says. “If I had waited any longer, I might have lost more of my hand.”