Australian traveller John Capretta tells of his holiday nightmare in Thailand

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Australian traveller John Capretta tells of his holiday nightmare in Thailand

JOHN Capretta was over the moon when he landed in Thailand for the trip of a lifetime.

So when he fell over and cut his ankle, it seemed like a minor setback. Sure, it wasn’t the ideal way to start his holiday, but after a few stitches he thought nothing more of it.

Little did he realise that things were about to get a whole lot worse, and that this simple accident would end up wreaking havoc on his tropical trip, and his health.

Capretta, 25, a network engineer from Melbourne, said the accident happened on his first day in Koh Pangan island, on Christmas Day. He had gone out with a group of people from a nearby hostel, and when they stopped at a beach he decided to go for a run, as he did every morning.

“A lot of rain suddenly came down, Thailand-style, so as I’m running for shelter I tripped on something and fell over on the street,” he told news.com.au.

“I’m not really sure what it was I fell into — probably scrap metal on the street. I had a lot of small cuts on my leg, along with a much larger cut — about five centimetres long. It didn’t look huge to me, it wasn’t bleeding a lot, and no ligaments were damaged, but it did need stitches.”

He went to a local hospital and then a clinic where the cut was cleaned and stitched up, and he was released.

No worries, he’d be right ... or so he thought.

“It wasn’t a big thing and I thought I’d be fine in a few days.”

However, a serious infection then turned the cut into a horrific, gaping wound.

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Source - news.co.au

[Jonathan Fairfield]

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