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I took a surfboard to the face and cut my lip wide open. Simple suctures repaired the lip damage but some virus, bacteria or something else had entered my body. This was in the late 1980s when beaches regularly had hypodermic needles washing up on the beaches due to hospital waste being dumped in the ocean instead of a sanitary landfill. I got really sick and after months of relentless tests, puzzled doctors and a failed surgery the doctor found a bone infection in my pelvis that soon after removed. I spent a week in the hospital and 12 week of IV antibiotics after the second surgery to fight whatever it was that made me sick. There is much more to this story and what I went through but not enough time or space to put it all in here. I still have physical defects from that illness. I have no proof it came from the ocean but the Doctor thought it must have come from the cut lip incident in the ocean a few weeks/months prior.