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A SCRATCH DID THIS!

Liz Hewat, 51, Chisholm, ACT

As I stared intently at the program on the TV, my husband Andrew squirmed beside me.

Obsessed with watching medical shows, I was fascinated by the man on screen who had contracted a flesh-eating bug called necrotising fasciitis after cutting his leg on a rose bush.

The disease had caused his leg to go black and doctors had cut out a section of flesh to save his life.

What a miracle he was saved, I thought.

The following month, in

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